Darwin's Origin of Species: A BiographyAtlantic Monthly Press, 2007 - Всего страниц: 174 Charles Darwin's foremost biographer, Janet Browne, delivers a vivid and accessible introduction to the book that permanently altered our understanding of what it is to be human. A sensation on its publication in 1859, The Origin of the Species profoundly shocked Victorian readers by calling into question the belief in a Creator with its description of evolution through natural selection. And Darwin's seminal work is nearly as controversial today. In her illuminating study, Browne delves into the long genesis of Darwin's theories, from his readings as a university student and his five-year voyage on the Beagle, to his debates with contemporaries and experiments in his garden. She explores the shock to Darwin when he read of competing scientist's similar discoveries and the wide and immediate impact of Darwin's theories on the world. As one of the launch titles in Atlantic Monthly Press' "Books That Changed the World" series, Browne's history takes readers inside The Origin of the Species and shows why it can fairly claim to be the greatest science book ever published. |
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... biological details . Not wishing to appear too revolutionary , however , or openly to attack the cherished beliefs of the faithful , he remarked in the conclusion that , if his views were accepted , ' light will be thrown on the origin ...
... biological details . Not wishing to appear too revolutionary , however , or openly to attack the cherished beliefs of the faithful , he remarked in the conclusion that , if his views were accepted , ' light will be thrown on the origin ...
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... biological terms , reinforcing nineteenth - century beliefs in racial superiority , where whites rested comfortably at the top of the scale . He also revealed that he believed in innate male superiority , honed by aeons of hunting and ...
... biological terms , reinforcing nineteenth - century beliefs in racial superiority , where whites rested comfortably at the top of the scale . He also revealed that he believed in innate male superiority , honed by aeons of hunting and ...
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... biology . From today's perspective it is almost unimaginable to envisage a world of biological research without the concepts of adapta- tion and natural selection , the intellectual tools that underpin so much of modern biomedicine ...
... biology . From today's perspective it is almost unimaginable to envisage a world of biological research without the concepts of adapta- tion and natural selection , the intellectual tools that underpin so much of modern biomedicine ...
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