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Darwin's backyard how small experiments led to a big theory

James T. Costa takes readers on a journey from Darwin's childhood through his voyage on the HMS Beagle where his ideas on evolution began. We then follow Darwin to Down House, his bustling home of forty years, where he kept porcupine quills at his desk to dissect barnacles, maintained a flock of six...

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Main Author: Costa, James T., 1963- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
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Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882 > Homes and haunts.
Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882 > Knowledge and learning.
Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882 > Childhood and youth.
Evolution (Biology) > History.
Natural history > Experiments > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Handbooks and manuals.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Origins of an experimentiser. Experimentising: Going to seed
  • 2. Barnacles to barbs. Experimentising: Doing your barnacles
  • 3. Untangling the bank. Experimentising: A taste for botany
  • 4. Buzzing places. Experimentising: Bees' cells and bubbles
  • 5. A grand game of chess. Experimentising: Getting around
  • 6. The sex lives of plants. Experimentising: Darwinian encounters of the floral kind
  • 7. It bears on design. Experimentising: Orchidelirium
  • 8. Plants with volition. Experimentising: Feed me, Seymour!
  • 9. Crafty and sagacious climbers. Experimentising: Seek and ye shall find
  • 10. Earthworm serenade. Experimentising: Get thee to a wormery.

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