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Author Richards, Robert J. (Robert John), 1942-

Title The tragic sense of life : Ernst Haeckel and the struggle over evolutionary thought / Robert J. Richards
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 551 pages, 8 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-540) and index
Notes English
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Subject Haeckel, Ernst, 1834-1919
SUBJECT Haeckel, Ernst, 1834-1919 fast
Subject Biologists -- Germany -- Biography
Zoologists -- Germany -- Biography
Evolution (Biology) -- History
NATURE -- Reference.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- General.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
Biologists
Evolution (Biology)
Zoologists
Germany
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226712192
0226712192
1281966304
9781281966308
9786611966300
6611966307