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Charles Darwin as a Celebrity [PDF]
, 2009 Several recent works in sociology examine the manufacture of public identities through the notion of celebrity. This paper explores the imagery of Charles Darwin as a nineteenth-century scientific celebrity by comparing the public character deliberately ...
Browne, Janet E
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Ecologization Is Not a Metaphor: Museums in the Web of Life
Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article documents and critiques emerging accounts of museum “ecologization”. Drawing on political ecology, materialist theory, and contemporary museum practice, we challenge dominant frameworks of ecological modernization and advocate for a more critical understanding of museums in the web of life.
Colin Sterling +2 more
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1909-1910: La 'conversione' di Morgan al modello dell'ereditarietà indiretta. [PDF]
, 2010 Omaggio a Charles Darwin: 1809-2009: duecento anni di ...
LA FARINA, Mario
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Fish and Fisheries, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Central to ecosystem‐based fisheries management is ensuring the sustainability of bycatch and byproduct species. However, the sustainability of these species is difficult to assess as the lack of information limits the use of traditional stock assessment methods.
Grant J. Johnson +5 more
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Human Dynamics: The Correspondence Patterns of Darwin and Einstein
, 2005 While living in different historical era, Charles Darwin (1809-1882) and Albert Einstein (1879-1955) were both prolific correspondents: Darwin sent (received) at least 7,591 (6,530) letters during his lifetime while Einstein sent (received) over 14,500 ...
A Bunde +6 more
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History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1955, Hisayuki Miyakawa published an article that sought to introduce American and European scholars to the work of the Japanese Sinologist Naitō Konan (1866–1934). Miyakawa drew particular attention to what he called the “Naitō hypothesis”—that is, Naitō’s argument that China became modern during the Song dynasty (960–1279).
CHRISTIAN DE PEE
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1. Charles Darwin and Organic Evolution
, 1958 Evolution was not a new idea. The Greeks speculated on it. In the century before Darwin many different evolutionary theories were proposed, among them notable efforts by Buffon, Lamarck, and Goethe. Their common thread was the concept that the succession
Bloom, Robert L. +6 more
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Emma Darwin: a great woman behind a great man [PDF]
, 2009 El 1839, quan Emma Wedgwood (18081896) va casar- se amb el seu cosí germà, Charles Darwin, ella tenia ja trenta anys, un més que ell. Era una edat en què una fadrina ja era considerada conca.
Piqueras Carrasco, Mercè
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