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The heretic in Darwin's court : the life of Alfred Russel Wallace /

Annotation During their lifetimes, Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin shared credit and fame for the independent and near-simultaneous discovery of natural selection. Together, the two men spearheaded one of the greatest intellectual revolutions in modern history, and their rivalry, usually am...

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Основен автор: Slotten, Ross A.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: New York : Columbia University Press, ℗♭2004.
Предмети:
Wallace, Alfred Russel, > 1823-1913.
Naturalists > England > Biography.
Spiritualists > England > Biography.
Socialists > England > Biography.
Naturalists > England.
Spiritualists > England.
Socialists > England.
NATURE > Essays.
NATURE > Reference.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Ecotourism.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
Naturalists.
Socialists.
Spiritualists.
England.
Electronic books.
Biography.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Heretic in Darwin's court.
Съдържание:
  • Origins of a heretic
  • The struggle for existence
  • A daring plan
  • Travels on the Amazon ...
  • ... And the Rio Negro
  • Disaster at sea ... and a civilized interlude
  • The Malay Archipelago
  • The mechanism revealed
  • Beautiful dreamer
  • A turn toward the unknowable
  • The olympian heights and the beginnings of the fall
  • Wallace and the descent of man
  • The descent of Wallace
  • The war on spiritualism
  • Phoenix from the ashes
  • To the land of epidemic delusions
  • The new nemesis
  • Thoroughly unpopular causes
  • Satisfaction, retrospection, and work
  • A national treasure celebrated.

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