UID:
edocfu_9959234972602883
Format:
1 online resource (572 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-281-96630-4
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9786611966300
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0-226-71219-2
Content:
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 from any other source, including the writings of Darwin himself. But, with detractors ranging from paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould to modern-day creationists and advocates of intelligent design, Haeckel is better known as a divisive figure than as a pioneering biologist. Robert J. Richards's intellectual biography rehabilitates Haeckel, providing the most accurate measure of his science and art yet written, as well as a moving account of Haeckel's eventful life.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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List of Illustrations --
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Preface --
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1. Introduction --
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2. Formation of a Romantic Biologist --
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3. Research in Italy and Conversion to Darwinism --
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4. Triumph and Tragedy at Jena --
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5. Evolutionary Morphology in the Darwinian Mode --
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6. Travel to England and the Canary Islands: Experimental Justifi cation of Evolution --
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7. The Popular Presentation of Evolution --
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8. The Rage of the Critics --
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9. The Religious Response to Evolutionism: Ants, Embryos, and Jesuits --
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10. Love in a Time of War --
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11. Conclusion: The Tragic Sense of Ernst Haeckel --
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Appendix 1: A Brief History of Morphology --
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Appendix 2: The Moral Grammar of Narratives in the History of Biology-the Case of Haeckel and Nazi Biology --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-226-71216-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-226-71214-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7208/9780226712192
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