Author: John Matthews Eaton
Publisher: London : The author
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Category : Columbidae
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1360

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Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Library
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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Contains the list of accessions to the library, formerly (1894-1909) issued quarterly in its series of "Bulletins."

Author: James C. Lyell
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Category : Pigeons
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Author: T. B. Coombe Williams
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Category : Pigeons
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Languages : en
Pages : 1676

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Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521385640
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 726

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The letters in this volume cover two of the most momentous years in Darwin's life. Begun in 1856 and the fruit of twenty years of study and reflection, Darwin's manuscript on the species question was a little more than half finished, and at least two years from publication, when in June 1858 Darwin unexpectedly received a letter and a manuscript from Alfred Russel Wallace indicating that he too had independently formulated a theory of natural selection. The letters detail the various stages in the preparation of what was to become one of the world's most famous works: Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, published by John Murray in November 1859. They reveal the first impressions of Darwin's book given by his most trusted confidants, and they relate Darwin's anxious response to the early reception of his theory by friends, family members, and prominent naturalists. This volume provides the capstone to Darwin's remarkable efforts for more than two decades to solve one of nature's greatest riddles - the origin of species.

Author: Robert J. Richards
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022605909X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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In tracing the history of Darwin’s accomplishment and the trajectory of evolutionary theory during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most scholars agree that Darwin introduced blind mechanism into biology, thus banishing moral values from the understanding of nature. According to the standard interpretation, the principle of survival of the fittest has rendered human behavior, including moral behavior, ultimately selfish. Few doubt that Darwinian theory, especially as construed by the master’s German disciple, Ernst Haeckel, inspired Hitler and led to Nazi atrocities. In this collection of essays, Robert J. Richards argues that this orthodox view is wrongheaded. A close historical examination reveals that Darwin, in more traditional fashion, constructed nature with a moral spine and provided it with a goal: man as a moral creature. The book takes up many other topics—including the character of Darwin’s chief principles of natural selection and divergence, his dispute with Alfred Russel Wallace over man’s big brain, the role of language in human development, his relationship to Herbert Spencer, how much his views had in common with Haeckel’s, and the general problem of progress in evolution. Moreover, Richards takes a forceful stand on the timely issue of whether Darwin is to blame for Hitler’s atrocities. Was Hitler a Darwinian? is intellectual history at its boldest.

Author: Sarah Van Hoosen Jones
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Category : Pigeons
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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