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Prologue : a peculiar obsession -- Part One. Darwin in the field. The lieutenant and the beetle collector -- Field trip with a master : the state of geology -- Setting out : the adventures begin -- ...
Darwinian thinking has been challenged many times, starting with co-discoverer of natural selection Alfred Russel Wallace, who disagreed with some aspects of Charles Darwin’s arguments, but was ...
NH copy Purchased from the Cullman Endowment. Traces the impact of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" on a diverse group of writers, abolitionists, and social reformers, including Henry David ...
A caricature of Darwin from a German satirical magazine, Kladderadatsch published in 1925, showing the American anti-evolutionist William Jennings Bryan getting to heaven and shocked to see St Peter ...
The Galápagos Islands, a remote volcanic archipelago, located about 1,000 kilometers west of Ecuador, is probably one of the most unique places on Earth. In the scientific world, this archipelago is ...
One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in American history. A local substitute teacher, John Scopes, was charged with ...