Includes bibliographical references (p. 513-540) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Formation of a romantic biologist -- Research in Italy and conversion to Darwinism -- Triumph and tragedy at Jena -- Evolutionary morphology in the Darwinian mode -- Travel to England and the Canary Islands : experimental justification of evolution -- The popular presentation of evolution -- The rage of the critics -- The religious response to evolutionism : ants, embryos, and Jesuits -- Love in a time of war -- Conclusion : the tragic sense of Ernst Haeckel.
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