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Darwin's ghosts : the secret history of evolution

Author: Rebecca Stott
Publisher: New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2012.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Evolution was not discovered single-handedly, Rebecca Stott argues, contrary to what has become standard lore, but is an idea that emerged over many centuries, advanced by daring individuals across the globe who had the imagination to speculate on nature's extraordinary ways, and who had the courage to articulate such speculations at a time when to do so was often considered heresy.
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Genre/Form: Sources
Biography
Named Person: Charles Darwin; Charles Darwin
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Rebecca Stott
ISBN: 9781400069378 1400069378
OCLC Number: 754714047
Description: xviii, 396 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: Darwin's list : Kent, 1859 --
Aristotle's eyes : Lesbos, 344 BC --
The worshipful curiosity of Jahiz : Basra and Baghdad, 850 --
Leonardo and the potter : Milan, 1493 ; Paris, 1570 --
Trembley's polyp : The Hague, 1740 --
The Consul of Cairo : Cairo, 1708 --
The Hotel of the Philosophers : Paris, 1749 --
Erasmus underground : Derbyshire, 1767 --
The Jardin des Plantes : Paris, 1800 --
The sponge philosopher : Edinburgh, 1826 --
The encyclopedist : Edinburgh, 1844 --
Alfred Wallace's fevered dreams : Malay Archipelago, 1858 --
Epilogue --
Appendix: An historical sketch of the recent progress of opinion on the Origin of species / by Charles Darwin.
Responsibility: Rebecca Stott.

Abstract:

Evolution was not discovered single-handedly, Rebecca Stott argues, contrary to what has become standard lore, but is an idea that emerged over many centuries, advanced by daring individuals across the globe who had the imagination to speculate on nature's extraordinary ways, and who had the courage to articulate such speculations at a time when to do so was often considered heresy.

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When a secret is just ignorance

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      I enjoyed this carefully-constructed work, Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution.  Unfortunately, I lack the ability to judge its adequacy dealing with the facts of history.  At any rate, the documentation seems to me exemplary.  The writing...
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schema:description"Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received an unsettling letter. He had expected criticism; in fact, letters were arriving daily, most expressing outrage and accusations of heresy. But this letter was different. It accused him of failing to acknowledge his predecessors, of taking credit for a theory that had already been discovered by others. Darwin realized that he had made an error in omitting from Origin of Species any mention of his intellectual forebears. Yet when he tried to trace all of the natural philosophers who had laid the groundwork for his theory, he found that history had already forgotten many of them. Evolution was not discovered single-handedly, the author argues, contrary to what has become standard lore, but is an idea that emerged over many centuries, advanced by daring individuals across the globe who had the imagination to speculate on nature's extraordinary ways, and who had the courage to articulate such speculations at a time when to do so was often considered heresy."
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