The tragic sense of life : Ernst Haeckel and the struggle over evolutionary thought

Author(s)

• Richards, Robert John

Bibliographic Information

The tragic sense of life : Ernst Haeckel and the struggle over evolutionary thought

Robert J. Richards

University of Chicago Press, 2009

• : pbk

Note

"Published 2008. Paperback edition 2009"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 513-540) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Prior to World War I, more people learned of evolutionary theory from the voluminous writings of Charles Darwin's foremost champion in Germany, Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), than from any other source, including the writings of Darwin himself. But, with detractors ranging from paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould to modern-day creationists and advocates of intelligent design, Haeckel is better known as a divisive figure than as a pioneering biologist. Robert J. Richards' intellectual biography rehabilitates Haeckel, providing the most accurate measure of his science and art yet written, as well as a moving account of Haeckel's eventful life.

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Details

• NCID: BB00421247
• ISBN:
  • 9780226712161
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Chicago, [Ill.]
• Pages/Volumes: xx, 551 p., [8] p. of col. plates
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QH31.H2
  • DC22 : 570.92
  • DC22 : B
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August, 1834-1919
  • LCSH : Biologists -- Germany -- Biography
  • LCSH : Zoologists -- Germany -- Biography
  • LCSH : Evolution (Biology) -- History