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Darwin and the Darwinian revolution. / Gertrude Himmelfarb.
Penn Museum Library QH31.D2 H57 1962
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Himmelfarb, Gertrude.
- Series:
- Anchor Books ; A325.
- Anchor Books ; A325
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
- Darwin, Charles.
- Evolution.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 510 pages ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962.
- Contents:
- Book I. Pre-History of the Hero. Childhood and youth; Cambridge
- Book II. Emergence of the Hero. The voyage of the Beagle; Geology: metaphysics and method; Intimations of the Origin
- Book III. Emergence of the Theory. Portrait of a scientists; Genesis of the theory; Progenitors of the theory; Progress, digression, and collaboration; Climate of opinion on the eve of the Origin
- Book IV. Reception of the Origin. The publication of the Origin; The Darwinian Party; The Anti-Darwinian party; Progress of the controversy
- Book V. Analysis of the Theory. The argument of the Origin; Mechanism and teleology; The origin of man
- Book VI. Darwinism. Darwinism, religion, and morality; Darwinism, politics, and society; The conservative revolution.
- Notes:
- "For this Anchor edition I have made minor changes, particularly in the last chapter."--Introduction 1962.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [496]-504) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- OCLC:
- 550699
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