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The Coming of Evolution: The Story of a Great Revolution in Science

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The Coming of Evolution: The Story of a Great Revolution in Science

John Wesley Judd

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How did one idea overturn the way the world understood itself? John Judd tells the story of the great revolution in science, tracing evolution from its first stirrings to its triumph. A clear, dramatic history of the theory and the thinkers who fought for it. Witness the intellectual upheaval that changed everything we thought we knew.

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34 chapters

  1. 1The Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature
  2. 2THE COMING OF EVOLUTION
  3. 3THE COMING OF EVOLUTION
  4. 4THE STORY OF A GREAT REVOLUTION IN SCIENCE by
  5. 5JOHN W. JUDD
  6. 6CONTENTS
  7. 7PLATES
  8. 8CHAPTER I
  9. 9INTRODUCTORY
  10. 10CHAPTER II
  11. 11ORIGIN OF THE IDEA OF EVOLUTION
  12. 12CHAPTER III
  13. 13THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE IDEA OF EVOLUTION TO THE INORGANIC WORLD
  14. 14CHAPTER IV
  15. 15THE TRIUMPH OF CATASTROPHISM OVER EVOLUTION
  16. 16CHAPTER V
  17. 17THE REVOLT OF SCROPE AND LYELL AGAINST CATASTROPHISM
  18. 18CHAPTER VI

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