Ian Hesketh

Of Apes and Ancestors

Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate

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Produktbeschreibung

By reconstructing the Oxford debate of 1860 on the merits of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, and carefully considering the individual perspectives of the main participants, Ian Hesketh argues that personal jealousies and professional agendas played a formative role in shaping the response to Darwin's hypothesis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780802092847
• ISBN-10: 0802092845
• Artikelnr.: 26816428

Autorenporträt

Ian Hesketh is an ARC Future Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Charles Darwin: Historian of Natural History
2 The Struggles of Soapy Sam
3 Thomas Henry Huxley and Richard Owen; or, Darwin's Bulldog and the Queer
Fish
4 Joseph Dalton Hooker and the Early History of a Great Friendship
5 The Oxford Debate
6 Remembering the Oxford Debate
Epilogue: The History of the Present
Notes
Bibliography
Index