Transactions of the Anthropological Society of London
Author : Anthropological Society of London
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Page : 492 pages
File Size : 38,89 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Anthropology
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Author : Anthropological Society of London
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Page : 492 pages
File Size : 38,89 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Anthropology
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Author : Anthropological Society (London)
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Page : 204 pages
File Size : 29,3 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : Bloxam
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Page : 320 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 1893
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Author : Alison Bashford
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 10,9 MB
Release : 2022-11-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226824128
A New Yorker and Economist Best Book of the Year Two hundred years of modern science and culture told through one family history. This momentous biography tells the story of the Huxleys: the Victorian natural historian T. H. Huxley (“Darwin’s Bulldog”) and his grandson, the scientist, conservationist, and zoologist Julian Huxley. Between them, they communicated to the world the great modern story of the theory of evolution by natural selection. In The Huxleys, celebrated historian Alison Bashford writes seamlessly about these omnivorous intellects together, almost as if they were a single man whose long, vital life bookended the colossal shifts in world history from the age of sail to the Space Age, and from colonial wars to world wars to the cold war. The Huxleys’ specialty was evolution in all its forms—at the grandest level of species, deep time, the Earth, and at the most personal and intimate. They illuminated the problems and wonders of the modern world and they fundamentally shaped how we see ourselves, as individuals and as a species. But perhaps their greatest subject was themselves. Bashford’s engaging, brilliantly ambitious book interweaves the Huxleys’ momentous public achievements with their private triumphs and tragedies. The result is the history of a family, but also a history of humanity grappling with its place in nature. This book shows how much we owe—for better or worse—to the unceasing curiosity, self-absorption, and enthusiasm of a small, strange group of men and women.
Author : Anthropological Society of London
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Page : 800 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 1866
Category : Anthropology
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Page : 672 pages
File Size : 30,81 MB
Release : 1864
Category : Anthropology
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Author : Robert Briffault
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Page : 868 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Anthropology
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Author : Edinburgh University Library
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Page : 1424 pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Library catalogs
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Page : 324 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 1893
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Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Page : 584 pages
File Size : 16,69 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
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