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Charles Darwin
Adrian/ Moore, James/ Browne, Janet Desmond

Oxford Univ Pr, 2007

Huxley: From Devil's Disciple To Evolution's High Priest (Helix Books)

9 reviews
Adrian Desmond

Basic Books, 1997

One of the best science biographies ever
I've read Adrian Desmond's Huxley biography several times since its initial publication a decade ago. When I first read it, I thought it was a tour de force; ten years later, it still holds up. Desmond is a brilliant biographer: his "Darwin" (co-authored with James Moore) and his studies of Robert Owen have been deeply influential among historians of science. The difference between those books ...

The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, Medicine, and Reform in Radical London (Science and Its Conceptual ...

2 reviews
Adrian Desmond

University Of Chicago Press, 1992

A revision of the history of evolutionism prior to Darwin.
Desmond's Politics of Evolution is not what the title may suggest--a study of the politics of Darwinism and its uses for rightwing ideology, or a study of the implications of evolution for a formerly theocratic world. Rather, the book details the RADICAL social and political implications of earlier evolutionary, anatomcial other life science theory as held and promoted by medical scientists ...

Archetypes and Ancestors: Palaeontology in Victorian London, 1850-1875
Adrian Desmond

University Of Chicago Press, 1986

"The social construction of scientific knowledge, clearly one of the most exciting trends in the history of science in the 1890's, has made a solid stride forward with the publication of Archetypes and Ancestors . . . . Adrian Desmond set out to determine how much light might be shed on the mid-Victorian controversies over fossil reconstruction by an investigation of the ideological commitments and political programs of London paleontologists. ...

The Descent of Man (Penguin Classics)

24 reviews
Charles Darwin

Penguin Classics, 2004

Charles Darwin: The English Da Vinci and a Valid Heretic.
The 'Descent of Man' is really the better of his two earth-shattering books.He unleashed 'The Origin of the Species' book for the scientific rebels and christian theologians to chew on and debate.And then came ,'Descent of Man', and the book continues to fire mass debates everyday.The other great thinker of his day,was Karl Marx.And both men had their writings misunderstood and exploited by ...

Charles Darwin (Very Interesting People Series)

19 reviews
Adrian Desmond, James Moore, ...

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

You must have it
Un libro estupendo. Erudito ,informado , ameno y riguroso.¿Que mas podemos pedirle a Janet Browne?

Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist

16 reviews
Adrian Desmond, James Moore

W. W. Norton & Company, 1994

ONE OF THE BETTER DARWIN BIOGRAPHIES
I just completed my second reading of this work. I do feel it is one of the better Darwin biographies. It certainly is not in the same league with Janet Browne's two volume work, but if you cannot get Browne, then this one will certainly do. This work is well researched and certainly presents us with a good look at not only Darwin the man, but of his science. I had to agree with another ...

Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution
Adrian Desmond, James Moore

Houghton Mifflin, 2009

Mining untapped sources, the authors of an acclaimed biography of Darwin offer an astonishing new portrait of the scientific icon. In Darwin's Sacred Cause, Adrian Desmond and James Moore restore the missing moral core of Darwin's evolutionary universe, providing a completely new account of how he came to his shattering theories about human origins. Desmond and Moore's biography of Darwin was described by Stephen Jay Gould as "unquestionably the ...