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The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, Medicine, and Reform in Radical London

Adrian Desmond - History - 1989 - 532 pages
Looking for the first time at the cut-price anatomy schools rather than genteel Oxbridge, Desmond winkles out pre-Darwinian evolutionary ideas in reform-minded and politically ...
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Archetypes and Ancestors: Palaeontology in Victorian London, 1850-1875

Adrian Desmond - Science - 1984 - 288 pages
"The social construction of scientific knowledge, clearly one of the most exciting trends in the history of science in the 1890's, has made a solid stride forward with the ...
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The Descent of Man: Selection in Relation to Sex

Adrian Desmond, Charles Darwin, James Moore - Science - 2017 - 864 pages
Applying his controversial theory of evolution to the origins of the human species, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man was the culmination of his life's work. This Penguin ...
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Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker

A.N. Wilson - Travel - 2017 - 282 pages
A radical reappraisal of Charles Darwin from the bestselling author of Victoria: A Life. With the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin—hailed as the man who ...
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Charles Darwin: The Power of Place

Janet Browne - Biography & Autobiography - 2011 - 609 pages
In 1858 Charles Darwin was forty-nine years old, a gentleman scientist living quietly at Down House in the Kent countryside, respected by fellow biologists and well liked among ...
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