Evolution :
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882,
Evolution : selected letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870 / edited by Frederick Burkhardt, Samantha Evans and Alison M. Pearn ; foreword by David Attenborough. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008. - 1 online resource (xxii, 308 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Foreword / Introduction -- Editor's note -- Symbols and abbreviations -- Prologue: 1860 -- 1861 -- 1862 -- 1863 -- 1864 -- 1865 -- 1866 -- 1867 -- 1868 -- 1869 -- 1870 -- Bibliography register -- Bibliography of biographical sources -- Bibliographical note -- David Attenborough -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Charles Darwin is a towering figure in the history of science, who changed the direction of modern thought by establishing the basis of evolutionary biology. With a Foreword by Sir David Attenborough, this is a fascinating insight into Darwin's life as he first directly addressed the issues of humanity's place in nature, and the consequences of his ideas for religious belief. Incorporating previously unpublished material, this volume includes letters written by Darwin, and also those written to him by friends and scientific colleagues world-wide, by critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and admirers who helped them to spread. They take up the story of Darwin's life in 1860, in the immediate aftermath of the publication of On the Origin of Species, and carry it through one of the most intense and productive decades of his career, to the eve of publication of Descent of Man in 1871.
9780511542596 (ebook)
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 --Correspondence.
Naturalists--Great Britain--Correspondence.
QH31.D2 / A4 2008
576.8/2092
Evolution : selected letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870 / edited by Frederick Burkhardt, Samantha Evans and Alison M. Pearn ; foreword by David Attenborough. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008. - 1 online resource (xxii, 308 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Foreword / Introduction -- Editor's note -- Symbols and abbreviations -- Prologue: 1860 -- 1861 -- 1862 -- 1863 -- 1864 -- 1865 -- 1866 -- 1867 -- 1868 -- 1869 -- 1870 -- Bibliography register -- Bibliography of biographical sources -- Bibliographical note -- David Attenborough -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Charles Darwin is a towering figure in the history of science, who changed the direction of modern thought by establishing the basis of evolutionary biology. With a Foreword by Sir David Attenborough, this is a fascinating insight into Darwin's life as he first directly addressed the issues of humanity's place in nature, and the consequences of his ideas for religious belief. Incorporating previously unpublished material, this volume includes letters written by Darwin, and also those written to him by friends and scientific colleagues world-wide, by critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and admirers who helped them to spread. They take up the story of Darwin's life in 1860, in the immediate aftermath of the publication of On the Origin of Species, and carry it through one of the most intense and productive decades of his career, to the eve of publication of Descent of Man in 1871.
9780511542596 (ebook)
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 --Correspondence.
Naturalists--Great Britain--Correspondence.
QH31.D2 / A4 2008
576.8/2092