Collected Essays: Man's place in nature
Author : Thomas Henry Huxley
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Page : 356 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Science
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Author : Thomas Henry Huxley
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Henry Huxley
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 30,81 MB
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465543511
Author : Thomas Henry Huxley
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,42 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Thomas H. Huxley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 39,35 MB
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 0486151344
Known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his impassioned defense of evolutionary theory, Thomas Huxley published this, his most famous book, just a few years after Darwin's The Origin of the Species. Unlike Origin, this book focuses on human ancestry and offers a concise, nontechnical survey of the state of mid-nineteenth-century knowledge about primate and human paleontology and ethology.Man's Place in Nature concurs with Darwin's assertion of the absence of a physiologic and psychic structural line of demarcation between humans and apes. Huxley ventures further than Darwin, however, by making the first attempt to apply the principles of evolution directly to the human race (an issue that Darwin skirted). Despite Huxley's acknowledgements of the wide gulf represented by the human capacity for rational speech and language, some Victorian readers were scandalized by the application of Darwinian theory to humans and by Huxley's evidence of the fundamental similarities between the human brain and the ape brain. A landmark of scientific progress, this immensely readable book reflects the stylistic gifts that made its author a popular public speaker.
Author : Thomas Henry Huxley
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Page : 204 pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 1863
Category : Apes
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Author : Thomas Henry Huxley
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Apes
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Author : Thomas Henry Huxley
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,12 MB
Release : 2015-04-24
Category :
ISBN : 9781506143644
Man's Place in Nature and Other Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley Thomas Henry Huxley.
Author : J. Drew Lanham
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1571318755
“A groundbreaking work about race and the American landscape, and a deep meditation on nature…wise and beautiful.”—Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk A Foreword Reviews Best Book of the Year and Nautilus Silver Award Winner In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina—a place “easy to pass by on the way somewhere else”—has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be “the rare bird, the oddity.” By turns angry, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking, The Home Place is a meditation on nature and belonging by an ornithologist and professor of ecology, at once a deeply moving memoir and riveting exploration of the contradictions of black identity in the rural South—and in America today. “When you’re done with The Home Place, it won’t be done with you. Its wonders will linger like everything luminous.”—Star Tribune “A lyrical story about the power of the wild…synthesizes his own family history, geography, nature, and race into a compelling argument for conservation and resilience.”—National Geographic
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Page : 848 pages
File Size : 22,73 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Literary and political reviews
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Author : Charles Taliaferro
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 24,31 MB
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1501325264
A Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion is an indispensable resource for students and scholars. Covering historical and contemporary figures, arguments, and terms, it offers an overview of the vital themes that make philosophy of religion the growing, vigorous field that it is today. It covers world religions and sources from east and west. Entries have been crafted for clarity, succinctness, and engagement. This second edition includes new entries, extended coverage of non-Christian topics, as well as revisions and updates throughout. The first edition was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year.