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Collecting Evolution : The Galapagos Expedition That Vindicated Darwin.

James, Matthew J.

Collecting Evolution : The Galapagos Expedition That Vindicated Darwin. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (305 pages)

Cover -- Collecting Evolution -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note to the Reader -- Prologue -- 1. Halfway to the Stars -- 2. Walking in Darwin's Footsteps -- 3. Setting Sail from San Francisco -- 4. Before It Is Too Late -- 5. Collecting Evolution -- 6. Galápagos at Last -- 7. Confluence: Where Geography and Ideas Meet -- 8. On Death, and Life, in Galápagos -- 9. Down to the Sea in Ships: Ship's Log, 1905 -- 10. Rising from the Ashes -- 11. Ship's Log, 1906 -- 12. That Sinking Feeling -- 13. Darwin's Islands Meet the Plant Wizard of Santa Rosa -- 14. The Voyage Home: Ship's Log -- 15. Vindicating Darwin -- Epilogue-​Legacy: Recent Use of California Academy of Sciences Specimens -- Chronology of the 1905-​1906 Galápagos Expedition -- Bibliography -- Index.

The story of the 1905-1906 voyage by the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands, during which over 78,000 species were collected.

9780199354610


Scientific expeditions--Galapagos Islands--History--20th century.


Electronic books.

QH11.J364 2017

508.8665

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