Darwin's ghosts

in search of the first evolutionists

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Rebecca Stott: Darwin's ghosts (2012, Bloomsbury)

383 pages

English language

Published Nov. 22, 2012 by Bloomsbury.

ISBN:
978-1-4088-0908-2
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OCLC Number:
774638991

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Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected criticism. Letters were arriving every day like swarms, some expressing praise, most outrage and accusations of heresy. But the letter from the Reverend Powell was different.

2 editions

Subjects

  • Sources
  • Evolution (Biology)
  • History
  • Scientists
  • Biography
  • Naturalists
  • Life (Biology)
  • Research
  • Biologists
  • Science
  • Biological Evolution
  • Evolutionstheorie
  • Naturwissenschaftler
  • Evolution
  • Biologe
  • On the origin of species (Darwin, Charles)