The tragic sense of life : Ernst Haeckel and the struggle over evolutionary thought /
Prior to the First World War, more people learned of evolutionary theory from the voluminous writings of Charles Darwin's foremost champion in Germany, Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), than through any other source, including the writings of Darwin himself. Haeckel's books vastly outsold Darwin&...
| Основен автор: | Richards, Robert J. 1942- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
℗♭2008.
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Tragic sense of life. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction
- Formation of a romantic biologist
- Research in Italy and conversion to Darwinism
- Triumph and tragedy at Jena
- Evolutionary morphology in the Darwinian mode
- Travel to England and the Canary Islands : experimental justification of evolution
- The popular presentation of evolution
- The rage of the critics
- The religious response to evolutionism : ants, embryos, and Jesuits
- Love in a time of war
- Conclusion : the tragic sense of Ernst Haeckel.