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Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral

By David , Agassiz , Alexander;Dobbs

Book information

Publisher
Pantheon
Year
2009
ISBN
9780307490070, 0375421610, 0307490076
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
1 MB (1286181 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1835-1910;Natural history -- Philosophy;NATUREAlexanderNATURE--Animals--Marine Life;SCIENCE--Earth Scienc

Description

This book examines, from a number of perspectives, a period of change in the nature of scientific thought, as represented in the 19th century debate over the formation of coral atolls and reefs between Charles Darwin and Alexander Agassiz, the son of Darwin's great opponent Louis Agassiz. Though the son opposed his father in siding with Darwin's theory of evolution, he made it his life's work to disprove Darwin's theory on coral; while ultimately shown to be incorrect, Agassiz's work laid the foundations of modern oceanography.

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