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The heretic in Darwin's court the life of Alfred Russel Wallace

Ross A. Slotten

New York Columbia University Press c2004

Localização: IB - Instituto de Biociências    (QH368 S634h )(Acessar)

  • Título:
    The heretic in Darwin's court the life of Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Autor: Ross A. Slotten
  • Assuntos: Wallace, Alfred Russel 1823-1913; Wallace, Alfred Russel; Naturalists -- England -- Biography; Spiritualists -- England -- Biography; Socialists -- England -- Biography; EVOLUÇÃO (TEORIA)
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references (p. [560]-576) and index
  • Descrição: Origins of a heretic -- The struggle for existence -- A daring plan -- Travels on the Amazon ... -- ... And the Rio Negro -- Disaster at sea ... and a civilized interlude -- The Malay Archipelago -- The mechanism revealed -- Beautiful dreamer -- A turn toward the unknowable -- The olympian heights and the beginnings of the fall -- Wallace and the descent of man -- The descent of Wallace -- The war on spiritualism -- Phoenix from the ashes -- To the land of epidemic delusions -- The new nemesis -- Thoroughly unpopular causes -- Satisfaction, retrospection, and work -- A national treasure celebrated.
    During their lifetimes, Wallace and Darwin shared credit and fame for the independent and near-simultaneous discovery of natural selection. Their rivalry, usually amicable but occasionally acrimonious, forged modern evolutionary theory. Yet today, few people today know much about Wallace. This book explores the controversial life and scientific contributions of the Victorian traveler, scientist and spiritualist. His twelve years of often harrowing travels in the western and eastern tropics place him in the pantheon of the greatest explorer-naturalists of the nineteenth century. Tracing his discovery of natural selection, the book then follows the remaining fifty years of Wallace's eccentric and entertaining life. In addition to his divergence from Darwin on two fundamental issues--sexual selection and the origin of the human mind--he pursued topics that most scientific figures of his day conspicuously avoided, including spiritualism, phrenology, mesmerism, environmentalism, and life on Mars.--From publisher description
  • Editor: New York Columbia University Press
  • Data de criação/publicação: c2004
  • Formato: viii, 602 p ill. 24 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês
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