(Dis)Entangling Darwin : Cross-disciplinary Reflections on the Man and His Legacy.

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Silva, Sara Graça da

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TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.Description: 1 online resource (248 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781443838238
1443838233

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: (Dis)Entangling Darwin : Cross-disciplinary Reflections on the Man and His Legacy.DDC classification:

576.82092

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QH301 .E384 2012

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Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; PROLOGUE; PART I; THE "PHILOSOPHICAL NATURALISM" OF SPINOZA AND DARWIN; NEW LANDSCAPES AND NEW EYES; DARWIN'S BOTANICALWORK; THE LONG REACH OF DARWIN'S THOUGHT ON THE EVOLUTION OF HUMANS; DARWIN, MARAÑÓN, HIRSCHFELD; THE "ECLIPSE OF DARWINISM" IN PORTUGAL; A GLOBAL FAMILY OF MAN; RECONSTRUCTING THE TREE OF LIFE; PART II; THE LAW OF SEXUAL SELECTION IN EDWARD BULWER LYTTON'S THE COMING RACE (1871); (DIS)ENTANGLING SCIENTIFIC AND POETIC DISCOURSE; EVOLUTION AND ETHICS IN TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES (1891).

THE INFLUENCE OF CHARLES DARWIN ON JOHN STEINBECKSTAGING DARWIN; EPILOGUE; THE LAY OF THE TRILOBITE (1885); INDEX.

Summary: Charles Darwin's curiosity had a remarkable childlike enthusiasm driven by an almost compulsive appetite for a constant process of discovery, which he never satiated despite his many voyages. He would puzzle about the smallest things, from the wonders of barnacles to the different shapes, colours and textures of the beetles which he obsessively collected, from flowers and stems to birds, music and language, and would dedicate years to understanding the potential significance of everything he ...

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THE INFLUENCE OF CHARLES DARWIN ON JOHN STEINBECKSTAGING DARWIN; EPILOGUE; THE LAY OF THE TRILOBITE (1885); INDEX.

Charles Darwin's curiosity had a remarkable childlike enthusiasm driven by an almost compulsive appetite for a constant process of discovery, which he never satiated despite his many voyages. He would puzzle about the smallest things, from the wonders of barnacles to the different shapes, colours and textures of the beetles which he obsessively collected, from flowers and stems to birds, music and language, and would dedicate years to understanding the potential significance of everything he ...