The heretic in Darwin's court: the life of Alfred Russel Wallace
During their lifetimes, Wallace and Darwin shared credit and fame for the independent and near-simultaneous discovery of natural selection. Their rivalry, usually amicable but occasionally acrimonious, forged modern evolutionary theory. Yet today, few people today know much about Wallace. This book...
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| Zusammenfassung: | During their lifetimes, Wallace and Darwin shared credit and fame for the independent and near-simultaneous discovery of natural selection. Their rivalry, usually amicable but occasionally acrimonious, forged modern evolutionary theory. Yet today, few people today know much about Wallace. This book explores the controversial life and scientific contributions of the Victorian traveler, scientist and spiritualist. His twelve years of often harrowing travels in the western and eastern tropics place him in the pantheon of the greatest explorer-naturalists of the nineteenth century. Tracing his discovery of natural selection, 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.--From publisher description. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Beschreibung: | VIII, 602 S. Ill., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 9780231130103 9780231130110 0231130104 0231130112 |
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Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
VII
Introduction
ι
CHAPTER
1
Origins of a Heretic
ю
CHAPTER
2
The Struggle for Existence
22
CHAPTER
3
A Daring Plan
32
CHAPTER
4
Travels on the Amazon
. 47
chapter
5
.
And the Rio Negro
63
CHAPTER
6
Disaster at Sea
.
and a Civilized Interlude
84
chapter
7
The Malay Archipelago
105
chapter
8
The Mechanism Revealed
141
chapter
9
Beautiful Dreamer
186
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CONTENTS
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CHAPTER
IO
A Tura
Toward the Unknowable
225
chapter
11
Trie Olympian Heights and the Beginnings of the Fall
249
chapter
12
Wallace and The Descent of Man
280
chapter
13
The Descent of Wallace
29 8
CHAPTER
14
The War on Spiritualism
326
CHAPTER
15
Phoenix from the Ashes
352
CHAPTER l6
To the Land of Epidemic Delusions
379
chapter
17
The New Nemesis
401
CHAPTER l8
Thoroughly Unpopular Causes
422
chapter
19
Satisfaction, Retrospection, and Work
456
chapter
20
A National Treasure Celebrated
477
GENEALOGY OF THE WALLACE FAMILY
494
NOTES
497
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
549
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
559
INDEX
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