Author: John Michels (Journalist)
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 962

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Vols. for 1911-13 contain the Proceedings of the Helminothological Society of Washington, ISSN 0018-0120, 1st-15th meeting.

Author: Tasmania. Parliament
Publisher:
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Category : Tasmania
Languages : en
Pages : 1126

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Author: Leon Zitzer
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532021305
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Darwin once pondered what it would be like to talk to an ape if he could take a dispassionate view of his own case. The ape, he said, would have to admit he was inferior to humans. Darwin was obsessed with ranking organisms. It was no different with human beings. It is not hard to prove that racism deeply infected the work of Charles Darwin. Turn the pages of his writingshis letters, Journal, Notebooks, and published worksand its there. There is hardly a source that does not contain it. It seems like every time he picked up his pen, he had something to say about the inferiority of certain races. For him, evolution produced inequality. But Darwin and evolution are not synonymous terms. It is possible to criticize Darwin without criticizing the theory of evolution. Some previous evolutionists, as well as some of his contemporaries, were more holistic and humanitarian than he was. They looked for connections rather than disconnections and ranking. They defied the ideology of conquest and domination of their day and paid a price. We can continue to eliminate them from our memories, or we can retrieve their voices and let them inspire.

Author: American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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Author: American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Languages : en
Pages : 1106

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Author: American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1498

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Author: Ross A. Slotten
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231130110
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 644

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During their lifetimes, Wallace and Darwin shared credit and fame for the independent and near-simultaneous discovery of natural selection. Their rivalry, usually amicable but occasionally acrimonious, forged modern evolutionary theory. Yet today, few people today know much about Wallace. This book explores the controversial life and scientific contributions of the Victorian traveler, scientist and spiritualist. His twelve years of often harrowing travels in the western and eastern tropics place him in the pantheon of the greatest explorer-naturalists of the nineteenth century. Tracing his discovery of natural selection, the book then follows the remaining fifty years of Wallace's eccentric and entertaining life. In addition to his divergence from Darwin on two fundamental issues--sexual selection and the origin of the human mind--he pursued topics that most scientific figures of his day conspicuously avoided, including spiritualism, phrenology, mesmerism, environmentalism, and life on Mars.--From publisher description.

Author: British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 652

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Author: British Association for the Advancement of Science
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 652

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Author: British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1984

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