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Darwin's evolving identity : adventure, ambition, and the sin of speculation / Alistair Sponsel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226523255
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • QH31 .D379 2017
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Contents:
Darwin's opportunity -- An amphibious being -- Studying dry land with a maritime perspective -- The making of a eureka moment -- The surveyor-naturalist -- Lyell claims Darwin as a student -- Darwin's audacity, Lyell's choreography -- Burned by success -- The life of a tormented geologist (and enthusiastic evolutionist) -- A finished task: Darwin's treatise on coral reefs -- Writing the Origin with his "fingers burned" -- Atoning for the sin of speculation.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Darwin's opportunity -- An amphibious being -- Studying dry land with a maritime perspective -- The making of a eureka moment -- The surveyor-naturalist -- Lyell claims Darwin as a student -- Darwin's audacity, Lyell's choreography -- Burned by success -- The life of a tormented geologist (and enthusiastic evolutionist) -- A finished task: Darwin's treatise on coral reefs -- Writing the Origin with his "fingers burned" -- Atoning for the sin of speculation.

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