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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814994703321

Autore

Porter Duncan

Titolo

Darwin's Sciences

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicester : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

9781119045731

9781444330359

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

GrahamPeter

Disciplina

508.092 B

Soggetti

Naturalists

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Darwin the Geologist -- Shrewsbury -- Edinburgh -- Cambridge -- Shrewsbury and North Wales -- The Beagle voyage -- Geological observations on the volcanic islands (1846) -- Geological observations on South America (1842) -- The structure and distribution of Coral Reefs (1842, 1874) -- After the Beagle -- On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life (November 1859) -- Chapter 3 Darwin the Zoologist -- Shrewsbury -- Edinburgh -- Cambridge -- The Beagle voyage -- After the Beagle -- Chapter 4 Darwin the Botanist -- Shrewsbury -- Edinburgh -- Cambridge -- Botany on the Beagle -- After the Beagle -- CD as a botanist -- Chapter 5 Darwin the Social Scientist -- On and off the Beagle -- Ethics and religion -- The Descent of Man -- The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872, 1890) -- CD as genealogist -- Chapter 6 Coda: Darwin, Worms, and the World -- Bibliography -- Index -- EULA.