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Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A radical reappraisal of Darwin argues that the evolution pioneer was less of an original scientific intellect than a ruthless self-promoter who did not give credit to the actual sages whose ideas he advanced in his history-shaping book.
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 35
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2001, c1982
Language
English
Description
In this analysis of Darwin's major insights and arguments, the author reasserts the importance of Darwin's work for the development of modern biology.
24) Mind and cosmos: why the materialist neo-Darwinian conception of nature is almost certainly false
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Argues that consciousness, intentionality, and value, all products of mind, are inadequately explained by standard materialist science, and that, therefore, standard materialist science is inadequate to provide the only way to understand the world. Devoted particularly to the origin of life from non-living matter and to the evolution of mind as problems for materialist science. Insists on a non-religious alternative.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A science educator honors children's curiosity and pockets full of "stuff" by introducing eight scientists who collected natural treasures when they were young. Collecting, sorting, and playing with shells, stones, and other objects taught these young people how to observe, classify, and discover"-- provided by publisher.
27) Charles Darwin
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
From the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Charles Darwin, the scientist who changed the way people see the world. Although he didn't do very well at school, Charles Darwin was passionately curious about wildlife, humans and plants. After a journey to South America, he developed his landmark theory: that all living things are related. Today, he is regarded as one of the most...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2012
Language
English
Description
Johnson brings the gentleman-scientist and his times brilliantly into focus. From Darwin's birth into great fortune to his voyage aboard the Beagle, to the long-delayed publication of his masterpiece, Johnson delves into what made this Victorian gentleman into a visionary scientist--and into the tragic flaws that later led Darwin to support the burgeoning eugenics movement.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded the HMS Beagle in 1831 with his microscopes and specimen bottles-invited by ship's captain Robert FitzRoy who wanted a travel companion at least as much as a ship's naturalist-he hardly thought he was embarking on what would become perhaps the most important and epoch-changing voyage in scientific history. Nonetheless, over the course of the five-year journey around the globe in often...
30) Creation
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Gives viewers a unique inside look at Charles Darwin, his family, and his love for his deeply religious wife, as he is torn between faith and science. Darwin struggles to finish his legendary book, On the Origin of Species, which goes on to become the foundation for evolutionary biology.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Charles Darwin--alongside Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein--ranks among the world's most famous scientists. In popular imagination, he peers at us from behind a bushy white Old Testament beard. This image of Darwin the Sage, however, crowds out the vital younger man whose curiosities, risk-taking, and travels aboard HMS Beagle would shape his later theories and served as the foundation of his scientific breakthroughs. Though storied, the Beagle's...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
"In this groundbreaking and very accessible book, Daniel C. Dennett, the acclaimed author of Consciousness Explained, demonstrates the power of the theory of natural selection and shows how Darwin's great idea transforms and illuminates our traditional view of our place in the universe." "Following Darwinian thinking to its logical conclusions is a risky business, with pitfalls for everybody. Creationists and others who reject evolution are not the...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Charles Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. In what is known today as the "Cambrian explosion," 530 million years ago many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record without apparent ancestors in earlier layers of rock. In Darwin's Doubt Stephen C. Meyer tells the story of the mystery surrounding this explosion of animal life -- a mystery that has intensified, not only because...
Author
Publisher
Nobrow
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When the young amateur naturalist Charles Darwin boarded the HMS Beagle in 1831, he had no idea what lay in store on his five-year voyage across the world. Darwin was disenchanted, moved, scandalised and awestruck by the vast discoveries that he made on his journey. On his return, he wrote his famous and controversial theory on the evolution of species. This long, perilous exploration was a journey that changed a man, and in doing so, the course...
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