Darwin's Laboratory : Evolutionary Theory and Natural History in the Pacific /
Darwin's Laboratory : Evolutionary Theory and Natural History in the Pacific /
ed. by Philip F. Rehbock, Roy Macleod.
- 1 online resource (552 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE Nature's Diversity and the Research Site of the Pacific -- 1 "This Coral Episode" Darwin, Dana, and the Coral Reefs of the Pacific -- 2 Darwin's Biogeography and the Oceanic Islands of the Central Pacific, 1859-1909 -- 3 Evolution, Biogeography, and Maps: An Early History of Wallace's Line -- 4 John T. Gulick and the Active Organism Adaptation, Isolation, and the Politics of Evolution -- 5 Embryology and Empire The Balfour Students and the Quest for Intermediate Forms in the Laboratory of the Pacific -- PART TWO Exchange Networks and the Organization of Research -- 6 Darwin's Correspondents in the Pacific Through the Looking Glass to the Antipodes -- 7 The Darwinian Legacy in the Pacific Northwest: Seattle's Young Naturalists' Society, P. Brooks Randolph, and Conchology -- 8 "Science at the Periphery" Dr. Schomburgk's Garden -- PART THREE Natives, Colonials, and Anthropologists -- 9 Missionaries and the Human Mind Charles Darwin and Robert FitzRoy -- 10 British Missionaries and Their Contribution to Science in the Pacific Islands -- 11 The Melanesian Mission and Victorian Anthropology: A Study in Symbiosis -- 12 The Color Blue: From Research in the Torres Strait to an Ecology of Human Behavior -- PART FOUR Social Darwinisms -- 13 Darwinism, Social Darwinism, and the Australian Aborigines: A Réévaluation -- 14 The Darwinian Enlightenment and New Zealand Politics -- 15 Environment and Race Geography's Search for a Darwinian Synthesis -- 16 Varieties of Social Darwinism in Australia, Japan, and Hawaii, 1883-1921 -- Contributors -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780824840754
10.1515/9780824840754 doi
HISTORY / Oceania.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE Nature's Diversity and the Research Site of the Pacific -- 1 "This Coral Episode" Darwin, Dana, and the Coral Reefs of the Pacific -- 2 Darwin's Biogeography and the Oceanic Islands of the Central Pacific, 1859-1909 -- 3 Evolution, Biogeography, and Maps: An Early History of Wallace's Line -- 4 John T. Gulick and the Active Organism Adaptation, Isolation, and the Politics of Evolution -- 5 Embryology and Empire The Balfour Students and the Quest for Intermediate Forms in the Laboratory of the Pacific -- PART TWO Exchange Networks and the Organization of Research -- 6 Darwin's Correspondents in the Pacific Through the Looking Glass to the Antipodes -- 7 The Darwinian Legacy in the Pacific Northwest: Seattle's Young Naturalists' Society, P. Brooks Randolph, and Conchology -- 8 "Science at the Periphery" Dr. Schomburgk's Garden -- PART THREE Natives, Colonials, and Anthropologists -- 9 Missionaries and the Human Mind Charles Darwin and Robert FitzRoy -- 10 British Missionaries and Their Contribution to Science in the Pacific Islands -- 11 The Melanesian Mission and Victorian Anthropology: A Study in Symbiosis -- 12 The Color Blue: From Research in the Torres Strait to an Ecology of Human Behavior -- PART FOUR Social Darwinisms -- 13 Darwinism, Social Darwinism, and the Australian Aborigines: A Réévaluation -- 14 The Darwinian Enlightenment and New Zealand Politics -- 15 Environment and Race Geography's Search for a Darwinian Synthesis -- 16 Varieties of Social Darwinism in Australia, Japan, and Hawaii, 1883-1921 -- Contributors -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780824840754
10.1515/9780824840754 doi
HISTORY / Oceania.