Huxley : from devil's disciple to evolution's high priest / Adrian Desmond.
Huxley : from devil's disciple to evolution's high priest / Adrian Desmond.
Huxley : from devil's disciple to evolution's high priest / Adrian Desmond.
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Reading, Mass : Addison-Wesley, c1997.
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T0391524
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English
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xx, 820 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Reading, Mass : Addison-Wesley, c1997.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
c1997.
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Huxley pulled himself up to fight Darwin's battles in the 1860s, but left Darwin behind on the most inflammatory issues. He devastated angst-ridden Victorian society with his talk of ape ancestors, and tantalized and tormented thousands - from laborers to ladies of society, cardinals to Karl Marx - with his scintillating lectures. Out of his provoc...
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Huxley : from devil's disciple to evolution's high priest / Adrian Desmond.
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Originally published as 2 separate volumes: Huxley : the devil's disciple and Huxley : evolution's high priest. London : M. Joseph, 1994.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 751-782) and index.
Transferred from N509.2/H986.3/1.
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c1997.
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T0391524
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74VMyW3wQgmb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMyW3wQgmb
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0201959879 (alk. paper)
9780201959871 (alk. paper)
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509.2
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991002107909702626
