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The tragic sense of life : Ernst Haeckel and the struggle over evolutionary thought / Robert J. Richards.

by Richards, Robert J. (Robert John), 1942-

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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August, 1834-1919.

Biologists -- Germany -- Biography.

Zoologists -- Germany -- Biography.

Evolution (Biology) -- History.

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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0827/2007039155-b.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0827/2007039155-d.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0804/2007039155.html

9780226712147 (cloth : alk. paper)

0226712141 (cloth : alk. paper)

xx, 551 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Formation of a romantic biologist -- Research in Italy and conversation to Darwinism -- Triumph and tragedy at Jena -- Evolutionary morphology in the Darwinian mode -- Travel to England and the Canary Islands: experimental justification of evolution -- The popular presentation of evolution -- The rage of the critics -- The religious response to evolutionism: ants, embryos, and Jesuits -- Love in a time of war -- Conclusion: the tragic sense of Ernst Haeckel.

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