| Description |
1 online resource |
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Pocket GIANTS |
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Pocket giants (Stroud (England))
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| Contents |
1. Giant -- 2. Early years -- 3. Student lives -- 4. World traveller -- 5. New thoughts -- 6. New scientist -- 7. Marriage -- 8. Telling the world -- 9. On the origin of species -- 10. After the origin -- 11. Final years -- Notes -- Timeline -- Further reading |
| Summary |
When Darwin announced his theory of evolution by natural selection, he did more than transform biology. Before his great work, humans were comfortably different from other life, a special creation. By showing how life on Earth evolved, Darwin told us that humans too are part of nature. His decisive experience - a five-year round-the-world voyage on the Beagle - set him thinking about the diversity of life, ideas that would challenge the scientific establishment and Victorian society. Darwin for years built his evidence for evolution, even as he realised that such ideas were leading him straigh |
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| Subject |
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
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| SUBJECT |
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 fast |
| Subject |
Naturalists -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Evolution (Biology)
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Evolution.
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Evolution (Biology)
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Naturalists
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780750957564 |
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0750957565 |
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