Keywords:
Evolution (Biology)-History.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Curtis Johnson examines Charles Darwin's "Historical Sketch," creating profiles of the great thinkers writing before and during Darwin's lifetime.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (473 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780190882945
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=6185210
DDC:
576.8
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Darwin's "Historical Sketch" -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The Preface to Darwin's Origin of Species: The Curious History of the "Historical Sketch" -- 1. Darwin's "Priority": Baden Powell and A.R. Wallace -- 2. Darwin's Earliest Sources. Authors to Be "Passed Over": Buffon, Maillet, Aristotle -- 3. Early Transmutationists: J.B. Lamarck, Erasmus Darwin, Goethe, Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire -- 4. W.C. Wells and William Herbert -- 5. Robert Grant and Patrick Matthew -- 6. Leopold von Buch, C.S Rafinesque, and Samuel Haldeman -- 7. Robert Chambers, J.B.J. d'Omalius d'Halloy, and Henry Freke -- 8. Richard Owen, Part I: Owen Before Origin and his 1860 Review -- 9. Richard Owen, Part II: Owen After Origin -- 10. Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire -- 11. Herbert Spencer and Charles Victor Naudin -- 12. Heinrich Bronn, Franz Unger, J.W.E. d'Alton, and Lorenz Oken -- 13. D.A. Godron, J.B.G.N. Bory de Saint Vincent, K.F. Burdach, J.L.M. Poiret, and E.M. Fries -- 14. Alexander Keyserling, Hermann Schaaffhausen, and Henri Lecoq -- 15. Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer -- Epilogue: T.H. Huxley and J.D. Hooker -- Bibliography -- Index.
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