In Darwin's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace : A Biographical Study on the Psychology of History - Couverture rigide

Shermer, Michael

 
9780195148305: In Darwin's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace : A Biographical Study on the Psychology of History
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ISBN 10 : 0195148304 ISBN 13 : 9780195148305
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2002

Synopsis

In Darwin's Shadow is the gripping story of the heretical British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace who co-discovered natural selection independently of his more well-known contemporary Charles Darwin. Utilizing a number of never-before-used archival sources that bring to bear new interpretations of this most fascinating scientists, best-selling author Michael Shermer applies his training in both the history of science and psychology to reveal the life, science, and personality of Wallace to unravel the mystery of his scientific, quasi-scientific, and non-scientific ideas. Shermer's unique approach goes beyond narrative story-telling to analyse the science, culture, and ideas that lie beneath the life story, in a path-breaking approach to biography. Shermer presents the two major points of intersection and conflict between Wallace and Darwin, one so radical that Darwin accused his younger colleague of intellectual murder!

Wallace has always appealed to lovers of travel and adventure stories, because that is the life he led: In Darwin's Shadow will also appeal to historians of science, readers of popular science, and fans of Shermer's previous books.

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À propos de l?auteur

Dr Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the Director of the Skeptics Society, and a monthly columnist for Scientific American. His latest book is The Borderlands of Science (OUP, 2001), about the fuzzy land between science and pseudoscience. He wrote Denying History, on Holocaust denial and other forms of historical distortion, How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science, which presents his theory on the origins of religion and why people believe in God, and Why People Believe Weird Things.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0195148304
ISBN 13 
9780195148305
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Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
448
Coordonnées du fabricant
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9780199856534: In Darwin's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace: A Biographical Study on the Psychology of History

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ISBN 10 :  0199856532 ISBN 13 :  9780199856534
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2011
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