부산대학교 도서관

국외단행본

Darwin's century : evolution and the men who discovered it / by Loren Eiseley.

Eiseley, Loren C. , 1907-1977

1st Anchor Books ed.

New York : Anchor Books , 1961.

378 p. ; 21 cm.

Doubleday anchor books ; A244

Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1958.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-360) and index.

The age of discovery. The voyagers ; The two ladders and the scale of being ; The Baconian and humanistic traditions in natural history ; Linnaeus ; The fixity of species -- The time voyagers. The extraordinary voyage ; Benoit de Maillet ; The Comte de Buffon ; Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck ; Early glimpses of ecological adaptation -- The pirate chart. Time and organic change ; Pagan and Christian time ; The chart ; The rise of catastrophism ; James Hutton's world machine and uniformitarianism ; William Smith-Cuvier: the magician of the charnel house -- Progressionism and evolution. Geological prophecy ; Sir Charles Lyell and the re-emergence of uniformitarianism ; Non-progressionism -- The minor evolutionists. ǂt Branching evolution ; William Wells ; Patrick Matthew and Robert Chambers -- The voyage of the Beagle. The age of giants ; The influence of Erasmus Darwin ; Darwin's intellectual background ; The voyage ; South America ; The Galapagos -- The making of the origin. "The bridgewater treaties" ; Darwin and Malthus ; The law of divergence ; The first essay attempts ; Darwin and design ; Darwin and Lamarck -- The priest who held the key to evolution. Gregor Mendel ; Pre-mendelian genetics ; Pangenesis ; Artificial selection and the evolutionists ; Mendel's contribution ; Johannsen and variation -- Darwin and the physicists. Kelvin and residual heat ; The biological retreat ; De Vries and saltatory evolution ; Time and radioactivity -- The reception of the first missing links. The evolutionists turn to man ; Ape and hotentot ; The microcephali ; The descent into the past ; The java ape man -- Wallace and the brain. The Darwinian bias ; Alfred Russel Wallace ; Darwin and human evolution ; Degeneration or development ; Wallace and human antiquity ; The concept of latency ; Brains and time -- Conclusion. Time: cyclic and historic ; The pre-Darwinian era ; The struggle of the parts ; Evolution and human culture ; The role of indeterminism.

Evolution (Biology), History.

0385081413 (pbk.)

575.0092 E36d