An edition of Darwin's ghosts
(2012)
Darwin’s Ghosts
In Search of the First Evolutionists
by Rebecca Stott
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Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected criticism. Letters were arriving every day like swarms, some expressing praise, most outrage and accusations of heresy. But the letter from the Reverend Powell was different.
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Darwin’s Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists
2012, Bloomsbury
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Darwin's ghosts: the secret history of evolution
2012, Spiegel & Grau, n/a
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Table of Contents
Darwin's list, Kent, 1859
Aristotle's Eyes, Lesbos, 344 BC
The Worshipful Curiosity of Jahiz, Basra and Baghdad, 850
Leonardo and the potter, Milan, 1493; Paris, 1570
Trembley's Polyp, The Hague, 1740
The Consul of Cairo, Cairo, 1708
The Hotel of the Philosophers, Paris, 1749
Erasmus underground, Derbyshire, 1767
The Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 1800
The Sponge Philosopher, Edinburgh, 1826
The Encyclopedist, Edinburgh, 1844
Alfred Wallace's fevered dreams, Malay Archipelago, 1858.
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Also published with subtitle: the secret history of evolution. New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2012.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-367) and index.
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