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From man to ape : Darwinism in Argentina, 1870-1920 / Adriana Novoa and Alex Levine.
- Title
- From man to ape : Darwinism in Argentina, 1870-1920 / Adriana Novoa and Alex Levine.
- Author
- Novoa, Adriana, 1963-
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2010.
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- Additional Authors
- Levine, Alex, 1966-
- Description
- xi, 281 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The authors here offer a history and interpretation of the reception of Darwinism in Argentina, illuminating the ways culture shapes scientific enterprise. They reveal new ways of understanding Latin American science and its impact on the scientific communities of Europe and North America.
- Uniform Title
- University press scholarship online.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-274) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The roots of evolutionary thought in Argentina -- The reception of Darwinism in Argentina -- The triumph of Darwinism in Argentina -- The culture of extinction -- Sexual selection and the politics of meaning -- Evolutionary psychology and its analogies.
- ISBN
- 9780226596167 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226596168 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010015031
- OCLC
- 587209582
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library