| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 551 pages, 8 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-540) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Formation of a romantic biologist -- Research in Italy and conversion to Darwinism -- Triumph and tragedy at Jena -- Evolutionary morphology in the Darwinian mode -- Travel to England and the Canary Islands : experimental justification of evolution -- The popular presentation of evolution -- The rage of the critics -- The religious response to evolutionism : ants, embryos, and Jesuits -- Love in a time of war -- Conclusion : the tragic sense of Ernst Haeckel. |
| Summary |
Prior to the First World War, more people learned of evolutionary theory from the voluminous writings of Charles Darwin's foremost champion in Germany, Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), than through any other source, including the writings of Darwin himself. Haeckel's books vastly outsold Darwin's in their own time, and today, his extraordinary scientific illustrations adorn books, posters, and coffee mugs. Haeckel gave currency to the idea of the "missing link" between apes and man, formulated the concept of ecology, and promulgated the "biogenetic law"--The idea that the embryo of an advanced specie. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Haeckel, Ernst, 1834-1919.
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Haeckel, Ernst, 1834-1919. |
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Biologists -- Germany -- Biography.
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Biologists. |
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Germany. |
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Biographies.
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Zoologists -- Germany -- Biography.
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Zoologists. |
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Evolution (Biology) -- History.
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Evolution (Biology) |
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Richards, Robert J. (Robert John), 1942- Tragic sense of life. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2008 9780226712147 0226712141 (DLC) 2007039155 (OCoLC)173368350 |
| ISBN |
9780226712192 (electronic book) |
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0226712192 (electronic book) |
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1281966304 |
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9781281966308 |
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9780226712147 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226712141 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786611966300 |
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