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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... claimed , because the num- ber of individuals is kept in check by natural limitations such as death by famine and disease , or human actions such as war , sexual abstention and sinful practices such as infanti- cide . These checks , he ...
... claimed , because the num- ber of individuals is kept in check by natural limitations such as death by famine and disease , or human actions such as war , sexual abstention and sinful practices such as infanti- cide . These checks , he ...
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... Son of God to English readers as if he were an ordinary man . One by one , Victorian thinkers claimed the right to investigate the world around them without recourse to either God's miraculous powers , ORIGIN OF SPECIES | 62.
... Son of God to English readers as if he were an ordinary man . One by one , Victorian thinkers claimed the right to investigate the world around them without recourse to either God's miraculous powers , ORIGIN OF SPECIES | 62.
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... claimed that mutation theory supplied the answer to the ori- gin of new species . - Indeed , the science of genetics at the start was somewhat anti - Darwinian . For more than twenty years its practitioners proposed that mutations were ...
... claimed that mutation theory supplied the answer to the ori- gin of new species . - Indeed , the science of genetics at the start was somewhat anti - Darwinian . For more than twenty years its practitioners proposed that mutations were ...
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