Darwin's Islands
Author | : Ian W. B. Thornton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Galápagos Islands |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ian W. B. Thornton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Galápagos Islands |
ISBN | : |
Author | : K. Thalia Grant |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2009-11-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0691142106 |
Recreates the scientist's historic visit to the Galapagos Islands using his original notebooks and logs, the latest findings by scholars and researchers, and the authors' first-hand knowledge of the archipelago.
Author | : Steve Jones |
Publisher | : Abacus Software |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Evolution (Biology) |
ISBN | : 9780349121413 |
The Origin of Species may be the most famous book in science but its stature tends to obscure much of Charles Darwin's other works. His visit to the Galapagos lasted just five weeks and on his return he never left Britain again.
Author | : Steve Jones |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300160410 |
Charles Darwin is of course best known for The Voyage of the Beagle and The Origin of Species. But he produced many other books over his long career, exploring specific aspects of the theory of evolution by natural selection in greater depth. The eminent evolutionary biologist Steve Jones uses these lesser-known works as springboards to examine how their essential ideas have generated whole fields of modern biology.Earthworms helped found modern soil science, Expression of the Emotions helped found comparative psychology, and Self-Fertilization and Forms of Flowers were important early works on the origin of sex. Through this delightful introduction to Darwin's oeuvre, one begins to see Darwin's role in biology as resembling Einstein's in physics: he didn't have one brilliant idea but many and in fact made some seminal contribution to practically every field of evolutionary study. Though these lesser-known works may seem disconnected, Jones points out that they all share a common theme: the power of small means over time to produce gigantic ends. Called a "world of wonders" by the Timesof London, The Darwin Archipelago will expand any reader's view of Darwin's genius and will demonstrate how all of biology, like life itself, descends from a common ancestor.
Author | : Brian D. McLaren |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1506448267 |
Bestselling author Brian D. McLaren followed his love of nature (specifically, tortoises) all the way to the Galapagos Islands. There, he paid close attention to the flora and fauna around him but also to what was happening within him, how the natural world awakened his soul in a way that organized religion could not. McLaren's descriptions of birds and reptiles, fish and flowers sing; he walks in the footsteps of Charles Darwin and grieves that Darwin has been demonized by his fellow Christians; and he reflects on how his own faith has evolved in the years since he left the pastorate. McLaren writes in the spirit of Aldo Leopold and Wendell Berry, weaving together the spiritual and the material. Even though most readers will never visit the Galapagos Islands, they can travel with McLaren and experience the beauty and fragility of this extraordinary place.
Author | : Peter R. Grant |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2024-11-12 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0691263221 |
"A new, revised edition of Peter and Rosemary Grant's synthesis of their decades of research on Daphne Island"--
Author | : Charles Darwin |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780146001444 |
Author | : Judith Denkinger |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2014-01-24 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 3319027697 |
This book focuses on how marine systems respond to natural and anthropogenic perturbations (ENSO, overfishing, pollution, tourism, invasive species, climate-change). Authors explain in their chapters how this information can guide management and conservation actions to help orient and better manage, restore and sustain the ecosystems services and goods that are derived from the ocean, while considering the complex issues that affect the delicate nature of the Islands. This book will contribute to a new understanding of the Galapagos Islands and marine ecosystems.
Author | : Ian W. B. Thornton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Galápagos Islands |
ISBN | : |