Heretic in Darwin's Court : the Life of Alfred Russel Wallace.

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 amicable but...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia University Press 2004.
Temas:
Wallace, Alfred Russel, > 1823-1913.
Wallace, Alfred Russel, > 1823-1913
Naturalists > England > Biography.
Spiritualists > England > Biography.
Socialists > England > Biography.
Naturalistes > Angleterre > Biographies.
Spirites > Angleterre > Biographies.
Naturalists
Socialists
Spiritualists
England
Electronic resource.
Biographies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover13;
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • chapter 1 Origins of a Heretic
  • chapter 2 The Struggle for Existence
  • chapter 3 4;A Daring Plan
  • chapter 4 Travels on the Amazon ...
  • chapter 5 ... And the Rio Negro13;
  • chapter 6 Disaster at Sea ... and a Civilized Interlude13;
  • chapter 7 4;The Malay Archipelago
  • chapter 8 4;The Mechanism Revealed
  • chapter 9 4;Beautiful Dreamer
  • chapter 10 4;A Turn Toward the Unknowable
  • 24-pg photo insert13;
  • chapter 11 4;The Olympian Heights and the Beginnings of the Fall
  • chapter 12 4;Wallace and The Descent of Man
  • chapter 13 4;The Descent of Wallace
  • chapter 14 4;The War on Spiritualism
  • chapter 15 4;Phoenix from the Ashes
  • chapter 16 4;To the Land of Epidemic Delusions
  • chapter 17 4;The New Nemesis
  • chapter 18 4;Thoroughly Unpopular Causes
  • chapter19 Satisfaction, Retrospection, and Work13;
  • chapter 20 4;A National Treasure Celebrated
  • Genealogy of the Wallace Family13;
  • Notes
  • Biographical Index
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index.

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