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Collecting Evolution : The Galapagos Expedition That Vindicated Darwin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (305 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199354610
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Collecting EvolutionDDC classification:
  • 508.8665
LOC classification:
  • QH11.J364 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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