عنوان

The heretic in Darwin's court :

شابک

0231503563

شابک

9780231503563

شابک اشتباه

0231130104

شابک اشتباه

9780231130103

شماره

b768992

شماره ناشر

EB00639168

منبع

Recorded Books

عنوان اصلي

The heretic in Darwin's court :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

the life of Alfred Russel Wallace /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Ross A. Slotten.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Columbia University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2004.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource (viii, 602 pages) :

ساير جزييات

illustrations

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 560-576).

متن يادداشت

Origins of a heretic -- The struggle for existence -- A daring plan -- Travels on the Amazon ... -- ... And the Rio Negro -- Disaster at sea ... and a civilized interlude -- The Malay Archipelago -- The mechanism revealed -- Beautiful dreamer -- A turn toward the unknowable -- The olympian heights and the beginnings of the fall -- Wallace and the descent of man -- The descent of Wallace -- The war on spiritualism -- Phoenix from the ashes -- To the land of epidemic delusions -- The new nemesis -- Thoroughly unpopular causes -- Satisfaction, retrospection, and work -- A national treasure celebrated.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

Annotation 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 occasionally acrimonious, forged modern evolutionary theory. Yet today, few people today know much about Wallace. The Heretic in Darwin's Court explores the controversial life and scientific contributions of Alfred Russel Wallace -- Victorian traveler, scientist, spiritualist, and co-discoverer with Charles Darwin of natural selection. After examining his early years, the biography turns to Wallace's twelve years of often harrowing travels in the western and eastern tropics, which place him in the pantheon of the greatest explorer-naturalists of the nineteenth century. Tracing step-by-step his discovery of natural selection -- a piece of scientific detective work as revolutionary in its implications as the discovery of the structure of DNA -- the book then follows the remaining fifty years of Wallace's eccentric and entertaining life. In addition to his divergence from Darwin on two fundamental issues -- sexual selection and the origin of the human mind -- he pursued topics that most scientific figures of his day conspicuously avoided, including spiritualism, phrenology, mesmerism, environmentalism, and life on Mars. Although there may be disagreement about his conclusions, Wallace's intellectual investigations into the origins of life, consciousness, and the universe itself remain some of the most inspired scientific accomplishments in history. This authoritative biography casts new light on the life and work of Alfred Russel Wallace and the importance of his twenty-five-year relationship with Charles Darwin.

منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک

JSTOR

منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک

OverDrive, Inc.

شماره انبار

22573/cttgscfv

شماره انبار

50DD7EE9-7BE7-4960-9A39-B624D5BD0629

عنوان

Heretic in Darwin's court.

موضوع مستند نشده

Wallace, Alfred Russel,1823-1913.

موضوع مستند نشده

Wallace, Alfred Russel,1823-1913.

موضوع مستند نشده

Naturalists-- England, Biography.

موضوع مستند نشده

Socialists-- England, Biography.

موضوع مستند نشده

Spiritualists-- England, Biography.

موضوع مستند نشده

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Personal Memoirs.

موضوع مستند نشده

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Science & Technology.

موضوع مستند نشده

Naturalists.

موضوع مستند نشده

NATURE-- Essays.

موضوع مستند نشده

NATURE-- Reference.

موضوع مستند نشده

Socialists.

موضوع مستند نشده

Spiritualists.

موضوع مستند نشده

TRAVEL-- Special Interest-- Ecotourism.

موضوع مستند نشده

England.

بدون عنوان

7

موضوع مستند نشده

BIO-- 015000

موضوع مستند نشده

BIO026000

موضوع مستند نشده

NAT-- 024000

موضوع مستند نشده

NAT-- 027000

موضوع مستند نشده

SCI027000

موضوع مستند نشده

TRV-- 026020

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Slotten, Ross A.

تاريخ عمليات

20201206145128.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

pn

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y