Darwin's laboratory : evolutionary theory and natural history in the Pacific / edited by Roy MacLeod and Philip F. Rehbock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

MacLeod, Roy M., editor.

Rehbock, Philip F., 1942- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history--History--Pacific Area--Congresses.

Natural history.

Evolution (Biology)--History--Congresses.

Evolution (Biology).

Anthropology--History--Pacific Area--Congresses.

Anthropology.

Social Darwinism--Pacific Area--History--Congresses.

Social Darwinism.

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882--Influence--Congresses.

Darwin, Charles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 515 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Preface

Introduction

PART ONE Nature's Diversity and the Research Site of the Pacific

1 "This Coral Episode" Darwin, Dana, and the Coral Reefs of the Pacific

2 Darwin's Biogeography and the Oceanic Islands of the Central Pacific, 1859-1909

3 Evolution, Biogeography, and Maps: An Early History of Wallace's Line

4 John T. Gulick and the Active Organism Adaptation, Isolation, and the Politics of Evolution

5 Embryology and Empire The Balfour Students and the Quest for Intermediate Forms in the Laboratory of the Pacific

PART TWO Exchange Networks and the Organization of Research

6 Darwin's Correspondents in the Pacific Through the Looking Glass to the Antipodes

7 The Darwinian Legacy in the Pacific Northwest: Seattle's Young Naturalists' Society, P. Brooks Randolph, and Conchology

8 "Science at the Periphery" Dr. Schomburgk's Garden

PART THREE Natives, Colonials, and Anthropologists

9 Missionaries and the Human Mind Charles Darwin and Robert FitzRoy

10 British Missionaries and Their Contribution to Science in the Pacific Islands

11 The Melanesian Mission and Victorian Anthropology: A Study in Symbiosis

12 The Color Blue: From Research in the Torres Strait to an Ecology of Human Behavior

PART FOUR Social Darwinisms

13 Darwinism, Social Darwinism, and the Australian Aborigines: A Réévaluation

14 The Darwinian Enlightenment and New Zealand Politics

15 Environment and Race Geography's Search for a Darwinian Synthesis

16 Varieties of Social Darwinism in Australia, Japan, and Hawaii, 1883-1921

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from information screen page (De Gruyter, viewed December 8, 2022).

Outgrowth of a symposium held in Hamburg in 1989.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8248-4075-5

OCLC:

1322126027