Author: Gabriel A. Dover
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520227903
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Imagined correspondence of the author with Charles Darwin.

Author: Charles Darwin
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Languages : en
Pages : 588

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Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521566773
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Charles Darwin stands as an icon in the history of science; a man who completely changed the direction of modern thought by establishing the basis of evolutionary biology. These letters offer a fascinating window onto the scientific observations, personal concerns and friendships of a great thinker, affording a unique glimpse of Darwin as both naturalist and family man. From his early years at Edinburgh University up to the publication of The Origin of Species in 1859, the letters in this volume chart the most exciting years of Darwin's life.

Author: Charles Darwin
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Languages : en
Pages : 588

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Author: David Quammen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393076342
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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"Quammen brilliantly and powerfully re-creates the 19th century naturalist's intellectual and spiritual journey."--Los Angeles Times Book Review Twenty-one years passed between Charles Darwin's epiphany that "natural selection" formed the basis of evolution and the scientist's publication of On the Origin of Species. Why did Darwin delay, and what happened during the course of those two decades? The human drama and scientific basis of these years constitute a fascinating, tangled tale that elucidates the character of a cautious naturalist who initiated an intellectual revolution.

Author: Charles Darwin
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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My dear Darwin, I have just finished your volume and right glad I am that I did my best with Hooker to persuade you to publish it without waiting for a time which probably could never have arrived, though you lived till the age of a hundred, when you had prepared all your facts on which you ground so many grand generalizations. It is a splendid case of close reasoning, and long substantial argument throughout so many pages; the condensation immense, too great perhaps for the uninitiated, but an effective and important preliminary statement, which will admit, even before your detailed proofs appear, of some occasional useful exemplification, such as your pigeons and cirripedes, of which you make such excellent use.

Author: Charles Darwin
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 602

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Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521844598
Category : Evolution (Biology)
Languages : en
Pages : 704

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