Darwin's man in Brazil [electronic resource] :the evolving science of Fritz Müller / David A. West ; foreword by Richard M. Burian and Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis.
By: West, David A [author.].
Contributor(s): Smocovitis, Vassiliki Betty [author of foreword.] | Burian, Richard M [author of foreword.] | Project Muse.
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BookPublisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813055800.Subject(s): Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Müller, Fritz, 1822-1897 -- Biography | Natural history -- Brazil | Naturalists -- Brazil -- Biography | Naturalists -- Germany -- BiographyGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 508.092 | B Online resources: Full text available: Includes bibliographical references and index.
The development of Fritz Müller's worldview, 1822-1852 -- Leaving Germany for a new life in Brazil, 1849-1867 -- The countenance of nature transformed, 1861-1869 -- A broadening recognition, 1863-1876 -- Botany and the return to the Itajaí, 1865-1869 -- Darwin's variation, insects, and a traveling naturalist, 1868-1876 -- Evolutionary studies, 1876-1881 -- Lepidopteran scent and mimicry, 1870-1883 -- Plant movement, heredity, and variation, 1881-1887 -- Dismissals, civil war, and last years, 1884-1897.
"David West explores Fritz Müller's (1821-1897) legacy as a Darwinist naturalist and seeks to return him to a cohort of some of the greatest nineteenth-century naturalists who conducted research in Brazil. West advances the theory that Müller, a great yet often overlooked nineteenth-century German naturalist, was Darwin's closest intellectual kin"--Provided by publisher.
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