The heretic in Darwin's court

The life of Alfred Russel Wallace

Ross A. Slotten

600 pages, parution le 30/07/2004

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Two men, Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace, independently invented the notion of evolution by natural selection, which ranks as one of the most significant scientific discoveries of all time. Yet while almost everyone today has heard of Darwin, Wallace's name is little known except to specialists. In this highly readable and thoroughly researched biography, Ross A. Slotten elegantly explains why this is so, and why the unsung Wallace continues to merit our admiration as one of the nineteenth century's most insightful scientists-and remarkable human beings.

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Origins of a Heretic
The Struggle for Existence
A Daring Plan
Travels on the Amazon
And the Rio Negro
Disaster at Sea…and a Civilized Interlude
The Malay Archipelago
The Mechanism Revealed
Beautiful Dreamer
A Turn Toward the Unknowable
The Olympian Heights and the Beginnings of the Fall
Wallace and The Descent of Man
The Descent of Wallace
The War on Spiritualism
Phoenix from the Ashes
To the Land of Epidemic Delusions
The New Nemesis
Thoroughly Unpopular Causes
Satisfaction, Retrospection, and Work
A National Treasure Celebrated

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Columbia University Press
Auteur(s)	Ross A. Slotten
Parution	30/07/2004
Nb. de pages	600
Format	16 x 23,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	980g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780231130103
ISBN13	978-0-231-13010-3