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050	0	0	_aQH361 _b.S76 2012
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100	1		_aStott, Rebecca
245	1	0	_aDarwin's ghosts _b: the secret history of evolution _c/ Rebecca Stott
250			_a1st edition
260			_aNew York _b: Spiegel & Grau _c, 2012.
300			_axviii, 396 p. _b: ill., maps _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [357]-376) and index.
505	0		_aDarwin's list : Kent, 1859 -- Aristotle's eyes : Lesbos, 344 BC -- The worshipful curiosity of Jahiz : Basra and Baghdad, 850 -- Leonardo and the potter : Milan, 1493 ; Paris, 1570 -- Trembley's polyp : The Hague, 1740 -- The Consul of Cairo : Cairo, 1708 -- The Hotel of the Philosophers : Paris, 1749 -- Erasmus underground : Derbyshire, 1767 -- The Jardin des Plantes : Paris, 1800 -- The sponge philosopher : Edinburgh, 1826 -- The encyclopedist : Edinburgh, 1844 -- Alfred Wallace's fevered dreams : Malay Archipelago, 1858 -- Epilogue -- Appendix: An historical sketch of the recent progress of opinion on the Origin of species / by Charles Darwin.
520			_aEvolution was not discovered single-handedly, Rebecca Stott argues, contrary to what has become standard lore, but is an idea that emerged over many centuries, advanced by daring individuals across the globe who had the imagination to speculate on nature's extraordinary ways, and who had the courage to articulate such speculations at a time when to do so was often considered heresy.
600	1	0	_aDarwin, Charles _d, 1809-1882
600	1	0	_aDarwin, Charles _d, 1809-1882 _v--Sources
600	1	4	_aDarwin, Charles _d, 1809-1882 _v--On the origin of species
650		0	_aEvolution (Biology) _x--History
650		0	_aScientists _v--Biography
650		0	_aNaturalists _x--Biography
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