Darwin's Origin of Species: A BiographyAtlantic, 2006 - Всего страниц: 174 On first publication in 1859, 'Origin of Species' became a bestseller. Darwin's idea that organisms gradually evolve through natural selection overturned the belief that all animals were born out of nothing. This guide examines the theory that changed the way we see the world and our place in it. |
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... progress appeared as motifs of the age . Middle - class liberals advocated self - improvement , literacy and education on the one hand , and public lectures and museums on the other . Medical men wondered about the possibility of the ...
... progress appeared as motifs of the age . Middle - class liberals advocated self - improvement , literacy and education on the one hand , and public lectures and museums on the other . Medical men wondered about the possibility of the ...
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... progress on the wider scale . Others , like Andrew Carnegie , the émigré Scots- man who created vast fortune and spent the rest of his life giving it away , revered Spencer . These commitments were heavily biased towards the political ...
... progress on the wider scale . Others , like Andrew Carnegie , the émigré Scots- man who created vast fortune and spent the rest of his life giving it away , revered Spencer . These commitments were heavily biased towards the political ...
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... progress . Scientific naturalism could take on the man- tle of a religion , as once preached by Thomas Henry Huxley in his ' lay sermons ' or articulated by philosophers William James and Charles S. Pierce . The evolutionary mysticism ...
... progress . Scientific naturalism could take on the man- tle of a religion , as once preached by Thomas Henry Huxley in his ' lay sermons ' or articulated by philosophers William James and Charles S. Pierce . The evolutionary mysticism ...
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