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The young Charles Darwin / Keith Thomson.
LIBRA QH31.D2 T56 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomson, Keith Stewart.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
- Darwin, Charles.
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882--Knowledge and learning.
- Naturalists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Naturalists.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Beginnings
- 1 Falmouth 3
- 2 Antecedents 10
- 3 Childhood 22
- 4 Edinburgh 32
- 5 Robert Jameson 41
- 6 Mentors and Models 60
- 7 Lamarckians 71
- 8 Cambridge Undergraduate 84
- Part 2 Savant
- 9 More Serious Things 101
- 10 Reading Science 116
- 11 Geology Again 126
- 12 HMS Beagle 131
- 13 Epiphanies 145
- 14 Storms and Floods 151
- Part 3 Natural Selection
- 15 First Thoughts on Evolution 175
- 16 Notebook B 191
- 17 Moving Forward, Living a Lie 204
- 18 Finding His Place 219
- 19 First Drafts 227
- 20 Crisis and Resolution 239.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-265) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780300136081
- 0300136080
- OCLC:
- 262432270
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