Matthew J James

Collecting Evolution

The Galapagos Expedition That Vindicated Darwin

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 159mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780199354597
• ISBN-10: 0199354596
• Artikelnr.: 47866899

Autorenporträt

Matthew James is a Fellow of the the California Academy of Sciences, and Professor of Paleontology at Sonoma State University. He has been writing about the Galapagos in historical, scientific, and research capacities for over thirty years.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
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