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Reef Madness : Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, And The Meaning Of Coral

Attribution
David Dobbs
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Pantheon, 2005
Availability
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(UPPER LEVEL) QE565 .D63 2005 AVAILABLE
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Author
- Dobbs, David, 1958-
Subject
Notes
- "In Reef Madness, Dobbs looks at the nature of scientific theory. He shows how Darwin was crucially influenced by his encounters with the Agassiz father and son, and how the coral problem prefigured the fierce battle about evolution."–BOOK JACKET
Contents
- Ch. 1. Magpie
- Ch. 2. Neuchatel
- Ch. 3. Freiburg
- Ch. 4. Cambridge
- Ch. 5. Fixity
- Ch. 6. Transmutation
- Ch. 7. Selection
- Ch. 8. A still greater sorrow
- Ch. 9. The pleasure of gambling
- Ch. 10. To light : Murray’s reefs
- Ch. 11. A question of science
- Ch. 12. Accrual
- Ch. 13. "A conspiracy of silence"
- Ch. 14. To sea
- Ch. 15. The last archipelago
- Ch. 16. A connected account
- Ch. 17. Eniwetok
ISBN
- 0375421610
- 9780375421617
LCCN
- 2004040131
Open Library ID
- /b/OL7425501M