5 letters from William Henry Wills to Sir Richard Owen
Author: William Henry Wills
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Published: 1852
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Author: William Henry Wills
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Published: 1852
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gowan Dawson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016-04-21
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 022633273X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNineteenth-century paleontologists, such as Georges Cuvier and Richard Owen, were heralded as scientific virtuosos, sometimes even veritable wizards, capable of resurrecting the denizens of an ancient past from a mere glance at a fragmentary bone. Such extraordinary feats of predictive reasoning relied on the law of correlation, which proposed that each element of an animal corresponds mutually with each of the others, so that a carnivorous tooth must be accompanied by a certain kind of jawbone, neck, stomach, limbs and feet. 'Show Me the Bone' tells the story of the rise and fall of this famous claim.
Author: William Henry Wills
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Published: 1838
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Published: 1847
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hester Lynch Piozzi
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780874133936
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry Mayhew
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Published: 1867
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Published: 1856
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Published: 1845
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Darwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 726
ISBN-13: 9780521385640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe letters in this volume cover two of the most momentous years in Darwin's life. Begun in 1856 and the fruit of twenty years of study and reflection, Darwin's manuscript on the species question was a little more than half finished, and at least two years from publication, when in June 1858 Darwin unexpectedly received a letter and a manuscript from Alfred Russel Wallace indicating that he too had independently formulated a theory of natural selection. The letters detail the various stages in the preparation of what was to become one of the world's most famous works: Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, published by John Murray in November 1859. They reveal the first impressions of Darwin's book given by his most trusted confidants, and they relate Darwin's anxious response to the early reception of his theory by friends, family members, and prominent naturalists. This volume provides the capstone to Darwin's remarkable efforts for more than two decades to solve one of nature's greatest riddles - the origin of species.