Darwin

Name: Darwin
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ISBN: 9780446515894

ISBN-10: 0446515892

ISBN-13: 9780446515894

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Authors: Adrian Desmond, James Moore

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List price: $35.00
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 832
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 2.25" tall
Weight: 2.926
Language: English

Charles Darwin (18091882) was an evolutionary biologist, best known for his controversial and ground-breaking The Origin of Species(1859). James Moore is a reader in history of science and technology at the Open University. Adrian Desmond is an honorary research fellow in the Biology Department at University College London.

Illustrations
Acknowledgements
A Devil's Chaplain?
1809--1831
Catching a Falling Christian	p. 5
The Northern Athens	p. 21
Sea-Mats and Seditious Science	p. 31
Anglican Orders	p. 45
Paradise and Punishment	p. 61
The Man Who Walks with Henslow	p. 74
Every Man for Himself	p. 84
1831-1836
My Final Exit	p. 101
A Chaos of Delight	p. 115
Troubled Spirits from Another World	p. 132
Shaken Foundations	p. 149
Colonial Life	p. 163
Temples of Nature	p. 182
1836-1842
A Peacock Admiring His Tail	p. 195
Reforming Nature	p. 212
Tearing Down the Barriers	p. 229
Mental Rioting	p. 240
Marriage and Malthusian Respectability	p. 256
The Dreadful War	p. 280
1842-1851
The Extreme Verge of the World	p. 301
Murder	p. 313
Illformed Little Monsters	p. 339
Al Diabolo	p. 351
My Water Doctor	p. 363
Our Bitter and Cruel Loss	p. 375
1851-1860
A Gentleman with Capital	p. 391
Ugly Facts	p. 405
Gunships and Grog Shops	p. 417
Horrid Wretches Like Me	p. 431
A Low and Lewd Nature	p. 441
What Would a Chimpanzee Say?	p. 451
Breaking Cover	p. 467
1860-1871
More Kicks than Halfpence	p. 485
From the Womb of the Ape	p. 500
A Living Grave	p. 519
Emerald Beauty	p. 536
Sex, Politics, and the X	p. 550
Disintegrating Speculations	p. 566
1871-1882
Pause, Pause, Pause	p. 589
A Wretched Bigot	p. 607
Never an Atheist	p. 622
Down among the Worms	p. 638
The Final Experiment	p. 652
An Agnostic in the Abbey	p. 664
Abbreviations	p. 679
Notes	p. 682
Bibliography	p. 740
Index	p. 773
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