num_pages: 512
description: Prior to the First World War more people learned of evolutionary theory from the voluminous writings of Charles Darwins foremost champion in Germany Ernst Haeckel (18341919) than from any other source including the writings of Darwin himself. But with detractors ranging from paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould to modern-day creationists and advocates of intelligent design Haeckel is better known as a divisive figure than as a pioneering biologist. Robert J. Richardss intellectual biography rehabilitates Haeckel providing the most accurate measure of his science and art yet written as well as a moving account of Haeckels eventful life.
language: English
title: The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought
publisher: University of Chicago Press