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The heretic in Darwin's court : the life of Alfred Russel Wallace / Ross A. Slotten.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Slotten, Ross A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913.
- Wallace, Alfred Russel.
- Naturalists--England--Biography.
- Naturalists.
- Spiritualists--England--Biography.
- Spiritualists.
- Socialists--England--Biography.
- Socialists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (637 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- During their lifetimes, Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin shared credit and fame for the independent and near-simultaneous discovery of natural selection. Together, the two men spearheaded one of the greatest intellectual revolutions in modern history, and their rivalry, usually amicable but occasionally acrimonious, forged modern evolutionary theory. Yet today, few people today know much about Wallace. The Heretic in Darwin's Court explores the controversial life and scientific contributions of Alfred Russel Wallace -- Victorian traveler, scientist, spiritualist,
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; chapter 1 Origins of a Heretic; chapter 2 The Struggle for Existence; chapter 3 A Daring Plan; chapter 4 Travels on the Amazon . . .; chapter 5 . . . And the Rio Negro; chapter 6 Disaster at Sea . . . and a Civilized Interlude; chapter 7 The Malay Archipelago; chapter 8 The Mechanism Revealed; chapter 9 Beautiful Dreamer; chapter 10 A Turn Toward the Unknowable; 24-pg photo insert; chapter 11 The Olympian Heights and the Beginnings of the Fall; chapter 12 Wallace and The Descent of Man; chapter 13 The Descent of Wallace
- chapter 14 The War on Spiritualismchapter 15 Phoenix from the Ashes; chapter 16 To the Land of Epidemic Delusions; chapter 17 The New Nemesis; chapter 18 Thoroughly Unpopular Causes; chapter19 Satisfaction, Retrospection, and Work; chapter 20 A National Treasure Celebrated; Genealogy of the Wallace Family; Notes; Biographical Index; Select Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [560]-576).
- ISBN:
- 9786612871894
- 9781282871892
- 1282871897
- 9780231503563
- 0231503563
- OCLC:
- 729029550
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