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James Bradley, Jay Lamar - Charles Darwin, Inbunden

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Charles Darwin

A Celebration of His Life and Legacy

Av James Bradley, Jay Lamar

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Charles Darwin (1809–82) changed the world forever with the 1859 publication of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy is an anthology of critical writings that grew out of a lecture series, hosted by Auburn University, held on the occasion of the two hundredth anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the first edition of his most famous book.Ideas in On the Origin of Species reordered the biological sciences forever, spawned new disciplines including evolutionary psychology, sociobiology, and evolutionary developmental biology, became foundational for modern biomedical research and practice, inspired new literature and literary criticism, were misused by 20th-century eugenicists and social Darwinists, traumatized persons with certain theological views, and continue to alter humankind’s view of itself and its place in the world. The seventeen contributors to this anthology tell an interdisciplinary story of Charles Darwin the person, Darwin’s work and world-altering ideas, and Darwin’s legacy.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2013-11-01
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
  • Vikt: 544 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 272
  • Förlag: University of Georgia Press
  • ISBN: 9781588382818
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James Bradley (Editor) JAMES BRADLEY is Professor Emeritus in Biological Sciences at Auburn University. After studying biochemistry and cell and developmental biology at the Universities of Wisconsin and Washington, he moved to Auburn to teach cellular biology and direct graduate research on the biochemistry of insect eggs and embryos. He lives with his wife in Alabama where they show their grandchildren the wonders of nature through camping, fishing, gardening, and rockhounding.Jay Lamar (Editor) JAY LAMAR worked in arts and humanities outreach at Auburn University, where she was the founding director of the Alabama Center for the Book, before becoming executive director of the Alabama Bicentennial Commission. She has been a writer and editor for almost thirty years and is coeditor of The Remembered Gate: Memoirs by Alabama Writers. She lives in Auburn, Alabama.

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This anthology would be of interest to anyone wishing to gain a grasp of the impact of Darwin on the disciplines discussed in these essays, and anyone seeking lucidity regarding the theory of organic evolution.

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