The tragic sense of life : Ernst Haeckel and the struggle over evolutionary thought.
Pubblicazione:
Chicago : The University of Chicago press, c2008.
Descrizione fisica:
XX, 551 p., [8] p. di tav. : ill., ritr. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: List of Illustrations. Preface. 1. Introduction 2. Formation of a romantic biologist 3. Research in Italy and conversion to Darwinism 4. Triumph and tragedy at Jena 5. Evolutionary morphology in the Darwinian mode 6. Travel to England and the Canary Islands: experimental justification of evolution 7. The Popular presentation of evolution 8. The rage of the critics 9. The religious response to evolutionism: ants, embryos, and Jesuits 10. Love in a time of war 11. Conclusion: The tragic sense of Ernst Haeckel. Appendix 1. A brief history of morphology. Appendix 2. The moral grammar of narratives in the history of biology: the case of Haeckel and Nazi biology. Bibliography. Index
Maienschein, Jane. Recensione].