Life's Splendid Drama
Subtitle: Evolutionary Biology and the Reconstruction of Life's Ancestry, 1860-1940 (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: May 22, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9780226069227
First sentence: It is widely assumed that the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859 triggered a scientific revolution with immense consequences both for biology itself and for Western culture as a whole.