Darwin

Adrian Desmond, James R Moore (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

864 Seiten

1992
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-14-013192-5 (ISBN)

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This biography of Charles Darwin attempts to capture the private unknown life of the real man - the gambling and gluttony at Cambridge, his gruelling trip round the globe, his intimate family life, worries about persecution and thoughts about God. Central to all of this, his pioneering efforts on the theory of evolution now that recent studies have overturned the commonplace views of Darwin that have held for more than a century.

Adrian Desmond studied at London University and Harvard, has higher degrees in vertebrate palaeontology and the history of science, and a Ph.D. for his work on Victorian evolution. He is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Biology Department at University College London. Adrian Desmond's bestselling Darwin (Penguin, 1992, written with James Moore), won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in Britain, the Grand Comisso Prize in Italy and the Watson Davis Prize from the History of Science Society in America. In 1997 the British Society for the History of Science awarded it the first Dingle Prize for the best book of the decade in communicating the history of science to a wide audience. His study of the pre-Darwinian generation, The Politics of Evolution (1989), received the Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society. He has also published The Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs (1975), The Ape's Reflexion (1979) and Archetypes and Ancestors (1982). In 1993 the Society for the History of Natural History awarded him its Founders' Medal. James Moore is a reader in history of science and technology at the Open University.

1809-1831; 1831-1836; 1836-1842; 1842-1851; 1851-1860; 1860-1871; 1871-1882.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.10.1992
Reihe/Serie	Penguin Biography/Autobiography
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 198 mm
Gewicht	581 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
Schlagworte	Darwin, Charles • Wissenschaftler (Biografien/Erinnerungen); Darwin, Charles
ISBN-10	0-14-013192-2 / 0140131922
ISBN-13	978-0-14-013192-5 / 9780140131925
Zustand	Neuware