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The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle Over Evolutionary Thought

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Prior to the First World War, more people learned of evolutionary theory from the voluminous writings of Charles Darwin's foremost champion in Germany, Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), than from any other source, including the writings of Darwin himself. But, with detractors ranging from paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould to modern-day creationists and advocates of intelligent design, Haeckel is better known as a divisive figure than as a pioneering biologist. Robert J. Richards's intellectual biography rehabilitates Haeckel, ...

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The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle Over Evolutionary Thought 2009, University of Chicago Press

ISBN-13: 9780226712161

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The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle Over Evolutionary Thought 2008, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226712147

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