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Darwin's ghosts : the secret history of evolution
- Title
- Darwin's ghosts : the secret history of evolution / Rebecca Stott.
- Author
- Stott, Rebecca.
- Publication
- New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2012.
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- Description
- xviii, 396 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Note
- "Originally published in hardcover in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury Publishing Pic, London"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-376) and index.
- Contents
- Darwin's List, Kent, 1859 -- Aristotle's Eyes, Lesbos, 344 BC -- The Worshipful Curiosity of Jahiz, Basra and Baghdad, 850 -- Leonardo and the Potter, Milan, 1493; Paris, 1570 -- Trembley's Polyp, The Hague, 1740 -- The Consul of Cairo, Cairo, 1708 -- The Hotel of the Philosophers, Paris, 1749 -- Erasmus Underground, Derbyshire, 1767 -- The Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 1800 -- The Sponge Philosopher, Edinburgh, 1826 -- The Encyclopaedist, Edinburgh, 1844 -- Alfred Wallace's Fevered Dreams, Malay Archipelago, 1858 -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Darwin's "Historical Sketch."
- Call Number
- JSE 16-363
- ISBN
- 9781400069378
- 1400069378
- LCCN
- 2011041951
- OCLC
- 2011041951
- Author
- Stott, Rebecca.
- Title
- Darwin's ghosts : the secret history of evolution / Rebecca Stott.
- Imprint
- New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2012.
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-376) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JSE 16-363