In Darwin's shadow : the life and science of Alfred Russel Wallace : a biographical study on the psychology of history /
Virtually unknown today, Alfred Russel Wallace was the co-discoverer of natural selection with Charles Darwin and an eminent scientist who stood out among his Victorian peers as a man of formidable mind and equally outsized personality. Michael Shermer rescues Wallace from the shadow of Darwin in th...
| Основен автор: | Shermer, Michael. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=146933 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
In Darwin's shadow. |
Съдържание:
- Uncertain beginnings
- The evolution of a naturalist
- Breaching the walls of the species citadel
- The mystery of mysteries solved
- A gentlemanly arrangement
- Scientific heresy and ideological murder
- A scientist among the spiritualists
- Heretical thoughts
- Heretical culture
- Heretic personality
- The last great Victorian
- The life of Wallace and the nature of history.