Darwin's man in Brazil : the evolving science of Fritz Müller

• Tác giả: Richard M Burian, Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, David A West
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN: 0813062608 (cloth : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780813062600 (cloth : alk. paper)
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 508.092 508.092 Natural history
• Mô tả vật lý: xxii, 316 pages : , illustrations ; , 25
• Bộ sưu tập: Khoa học tự nhiên
• ID: 277586
• Chủ đề: 1. Natural history; 2. Naturalists--Brazil; 3. Naturalists--Germany

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-306) and in

Tóm tắt

"David West explores Fritz Müller's (1821-1897) legacy as a Darwinist naturalist and seeks to return him to a cohort of some of the greatest nineteenth-century naturalists who conducted research in Brazil. West advances the theory that Müller, a great yet often overlooked nineteenth-century German naturalist, was Darwin's closest intellectual kin"-- Provided by publis