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  • Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection

    by Evelleen Richards ...
    Darwin's concept of natural selection has been exhaustively studied, but his secondary evolutionary principle of sexual selection remains largely unexplored and misunderstood. Yet sexual selection was of great strategic importance to Darwin because it explained things that natural selection could not and offered a naturalistic, as opposed to divine, account of beauty and its perception.Only now, ... Read more

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  • Ideology and Evolution in Nineteenth Century Britain

    Embryos, Monsters, and Racial and Gendered Others in the Making of Evolutionary Theory and Culture

    by Evelleen Richards ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    Written over several decades and collected together for the first time, these richly detailed contextual studies by a leading historian of science examine the diverse ways in which cultural values and political and professional considerations impinged upon the construction, acceptance and applications of nineteenth century evolutionary theory. They include a number of interrelated analyses of the ... Read more

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  • The Reluctant Mr. Darwin

    An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution

    by David Quammen ...
    Series series Great Discoveries
    "Quammen brilliantly and powerfully re-creates the 19th century naturalist's intellectual and spiritual journey."--Los Angeles Times Book ReviewTwenty-one years passed between Charles Darwin's epiphany that "natural selection" formed the basis of evolution and the scientist's publication of On the Origin of Species. Why did Darwin delay, and what happened during the course of those two decades? ... Read more

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  • Angels and Ages

    A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life

    by Adam Gopnik ...
    In this captivating double life, Adam Gopnik searches for the men behind the icons of emancipation and evolution. Born by cosmic coincidence on the same day in 1809 and separated by an ocean, Lincoln and Darwin coauthored our sense of history and our understanding of man’s place in the world. Here Gopnik reveals these two men as they really were: family men and social climbers, ambitious ... Read more

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  • Disputed Inheritance

    The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology

    by Gregory Radick ...
    A root-and-branch rethinking of how history has shaped the science of genetics.In 1900, almost no one had heard of Gregor Mendel. Ten years later, he was famous as the father of a new science of heredity—genetics. Even today, Mendelian ideas serve as a standard point of entry for learning about genes. The message students receive is plain: the twenty-first century owes an enlightened understanding ... Read more

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  • Darwin

    Portrait of a Genius

    by Paul Johnson ...
    Eminent historian Paul Johnson provides a rich, succinct portrait of Charles DarwinCharles Darwin is arguably the most influential scientist of all time. His Origin of Species forever changed our concept of the world’s creation.Darwin’s revolutionary career is the perfect vehicle for historian Paul Johnson. Marked by the insightful observation, spectacular wit, and highly readable prose for which ... Read more

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  • The Huxleys

    An Intimate History of Evolution

    by Alison Bashford ...
    A New Yorker and Economist Best Book of the Year: Two hundred years of modern science and culture told through one family history.This momentous biography tells the story of the Huxleys: the Victorian natural historian T. H. Huxley ("Darwin's Bulldog") and his grandson, the scientist, conservationist, and zoologist Julian Huxley. Between them, they communicated to the world th... ... Read more

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  • Evolution

    The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory

    by Edward J. Larson ...
    Series Book 17 - Modern Library Chronicles
    “I often said before starting, that I had no doubt I should frequently repent of the whole undertaking.” So wrote Charles Darwin aboard The Beagle, bound for the Galapagos Islands and what would arguably become the greatest and most controversial discovery in scientific history. But the theory of evolution did not spring full-blown from the head of Darwin. Since the dawn of humanity, priests, ... Read more

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  • Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

    Reflections in Natural History

    by Stephen Jay Gould ...
    "Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history. . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then, uncoiling, hit it with such power that his fans know they are experiencing the game of essay writing at its best."--John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review ... Read more

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  • Darwin: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathan Howard ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Darwin's theory that our ancestors were apes caused a furore in the scientific world and outside it when The Origin of Species was published in 1859. Arguments still rage about the implications of his evolutionary theory, and scepticism about the value of Darwin's contribution to knowledge is widespread. In this analysis of Darwin's major insights and arguments, Jonathan Howard reasserts the ... Read more

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  • What It Means To Be Human

    Reflections from 1791 to the present

    by Professor Joanna Bourke ...
    In 1872, a woman known only as 'An Ernest Englishwoman' published an open letter entitled 'Are women animals?', in which she protested the fact that women were not treated as fully human. In reality, their status was worse than that of animals: regulations prohibiting cruelty against dogs, horses and cattle were significantly more punitive than laws against cruelty to women.What does it mean to be ... Read more

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  • Natural Magic

    Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science

    by Renée Bergland ...
    **"An immensely rich and rewarding study of two great human exemplars."—John Banville, Irish TimesA captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature**Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets, priests, and schoolgirls. The world began to change ... Read more

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