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The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought

By Robert J. Richards

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9780226712192
DOI
10.7208/9780226712192
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7327329 bytes)
Pages
512\571
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-15 03:29:52

Description

Prior to the First World War, 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’s 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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