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Darwin's Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists

Rebecca Stott

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Description:Soon after publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected outrage and accusations of heresy, but this letter was different: it accused him of taking credit for a theory that wasn't his. Yet when he tried to trace his intellectual forebears, he found that history had already forgotten them... Rediscovering Aristotle on the shores of Lesbos and Leonardo da Vinci fossil hunting in the Tuscan hills, Darwin's Ghosts brings to life the collective daring of a few like-minded men whose early theories flew in the face of prevailing political and religious orthodoxies, and laid the foundations for Darwin's revolutionary idea.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Darwin's Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists. To get started finding Darwin's Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 383

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Release: 2013

ISBN: 1408831015

Description: Soon after publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected outrage and accusations of heresy, but this letter was different: it accused him of taking credit for a theory that wasn't his. Yet when he tried to trace his intellectual forebears, he found that history had already forgotten them... Rediscovering Aristotle on the shores of Lesbos and Leonardo da Vinci fossil hunting in the Tuscan hills, Darwin's Ghosts brings to life the collective daring of a few like-minded men whose early theories flew in the face of prevailing political and religious orthodoxies, and laid the foundations for Darwin's revolutionary idea.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Darwin's Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists. To get started finding Darwin's Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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