Evolutionary Writings

Including the Autobiographies
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-958014-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 544 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 365 g

'Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin'

On topics ranging from intelligent design and climate change to the politics of gender and race, the evolutionary writings of Charles Darwin occupy a pivotal position in contemporary public debate. This volume brings together the key chapters of his most important and accessible books, including the Journal of Researches on the Beagle voyage (1845), the Origin of Species (1871), and the Descent of Man, along with the full text of his delightful autobiography. They are accompanied by generous selections of responses from Darwin's nineteenth-century readers from across the world. More than anything, they give a keen sense of the controversial nature of Darwin's ideas, and his position within Victorian debates about man's place in nature.

The wide-ranging introduction by James A. Secord, Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project, explores the global impact and origins of Darwin's work and the reasons for its unparalleled significance today.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Darwin, Charles

Secord, James A

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Journal of Researches

- Map of the Beagle voyage

- Journal of Researches

- Reviews and Responses

- Origin of Species

- On the Origin of Species

- Reviews and Responses

- Descent of Man

- The Descent of Man

- Reviews and Responses

- Autobiographies

- Life (1838)

- Recollections of the Development of My Mind and Character (1876-81)

- The Making of a Celebrity

Über Autor(innen)

James A. Secord is the author of Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute (Princeton, 1986), and Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' (Chicago, 2000), winner of the 2002 Pfizer Prize of the History of Science Society. He has edited Lyell's Principles of Geology for Penguin.