Author : Rebecca Stott
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 26,4 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393057454
Tells the story of the part played by Darwin's eight-year study of barnacles and how the examination of this tiny marine organism contributed to the development of his theory of evolution.
Author : Stephen B. Heard
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 0300252692
An engaging history of the surprising, poignant, and occasionally scandalous stories behind scientific names and their cultural significance Ever since Carl Linnaeus’s binomial system of scientific names was adopted in the eighteenth century, scientists have been eponymously naming organisms in ways that both honor and vilify their namesakes. This charming, informative, and accessible history examines the fascinating stories behind taxonomic nomenclature, from Linnaeus himself naming a small and unpleasant weed after a rival botanist to the recent influx of scientific names based on pop-culture icons—including David Bowie’s spider, Frank Zappa’s jellyfish, and Beyoncé’s fly. Exploring the naming process as an opportunity for scientists to express themselves in creative ways, Stephen B. Heard’s fresh approach shows how scientific names function as a window into both the passions and foibles of the scientific community and as a more general indicator of the ways in which humans relate to, and impose order on, the natural world.
Author : Galt Niederhoffer
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 10,2 MB
Release : 2013-12-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466860898
The Barnacle sisters--Bell, Bridget, Benita, Beryl, Belinda and Beth--have been raised in New York bytheir eccentric, self-made father in a fabulous, gigantic Fifth Avenue apartment that, encrusted with Barry Barnacle's scientific collections, feels like a little piece of the Museum of Natural History transplanted to the other side of Central Park. Now that most of the sisters have come of age, Barry Barnacle proposes a contest, a test of wits and wills that should at long last settle what is to Barry the most essential of all questions: nature, or nurture? Whichever of his daughters can most spectacularly carry on his name will inherit his fortune; the others are out cold. It's a proposition to set a Jane Austen heroine on her ear, but in Galt Niederhoffer's A Taxonomy of Barnacles, the Barnacle girls are up to the challenge. Throw the girls' mother Bella and their childhood crushes--the Finch twins next door--into the mix and the stage is set for a completely inventive and utterly fresh social comedy that is as beautifully written as it is unique.
Author : David Quammen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 2007-07-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393076342
"Quammen brilliantly and powerfully re-creates the 19th century naturalist's intellectual and spiritual journey."--Los Angeles Times Book Review Twenty-one years passed between Charles Darwin's epiphany that "natural selection" formed the basis of evolution and the scientist's publication of On the Origin of Species. Why did Darwin delay, and what happened during the course of those two decades? The human drama and scientific basis of these years constitute a fascinating, tangled tale that elucidates the character of a cautious naturalist who initiated an intellectual revolution.
Author : Kostas Kampourakis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,9 MB
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 1107034914
Bringing together conceptual obstacles and core concepts of evolutionary theory, this book presents evolution as straightforward and intuitive.
Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher :
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 34,48 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Cirripedia
ISBN :
Author : Deborah Heiligman
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 17,24 MB
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1429934956
Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, his revolutionary tract on evolution and the fundamental ideas involved, in 1859. Nearly 150 years later, the theory of evolution continues to create tension between the scientific and religious communities. Challenges about teaching the theory of evolution in schools occur annually all over the country. This same debate raged within Darwin himself, and played an important part in his marriage: his wife, Emma, was quite religious, and her faith gave Charles a lot to think about as he worked on a theory that continues to spark intense debates. Deborah Heiligman's new biography of Charles Darwin is a thought-provoking account of the man behind evolutionary theory: how his personal life affected his work and vice versa. The end result is an engaging exploration of history, science, and religion for young readers. Charles and Emma is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature.
Author : Keith Stewart Thomson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 36,33 MB
Release : 2007-08-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300126006
Scientists and thologians had long been debating the religious implicaitons of evolutionary theory when Darwin announced his theory of natural selection.
Author : George Levine
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 39,43 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226475743
The Victorian novel clearly joins with science in the pervasive secularizing of nature and society and in the exploration of the consequences of secularization that characterized mid-Victorian England. p. viii.
Author : Michael T. Ghiselin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 1969
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