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Darwin Armada: Four Voyages and the battle for the theory of evolution
Readers have a choice too many new books about Charles Darwin and the evolution of this year, the bicentenary of Darwin's birth. Darwin Armada certainly among the best suited for a broad public importance. It consists of five parts. The first four relate to experience research expedition from Darwin, Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Wallace. The fifth describes the events surrounding the publication ofGain work of Darwin and Wallace on the development and subsequent support for their theory battles.

The first four chapters serve as a good short biographies of significant parts of the career of these men, especially useful for readers not already versed in the life of one or more of them. McCalman, a distinguished Australian professor, focused on their experience of the South Pacific, but not exclusively. None of the four was a natural conclusion of their September 1on their respective trips, and one is to maintain the values of McCalman shows how he learned while working. He shows how Darwin and Wallace, in particular evolutionary insights developed from their observations of animals and plants in isolated island habitats.

McCalman highlights the differences in social class between these people and shows how their careers, and class interactions concerned with the scientific community. Darwin was a distinguished family, butWallace fit with the trade union movement and was a self-taught. Hooker and Huxley fit in the middle, and both the financial difficulties at times.

I found Part Five "The Armada in the war, 1859-1882", the most rewarding. It shows how the connections between these men and merged, it was important. Hooker and Darwin were friends since the mid-1840s and developed Hooker served as the main forum for discussion of Darwin's ideas on evolution state. Huxley, who first met Darwin in 1853 hadbe over, but he eventually won was the most effective advertising for the views of Darwin.

The campaign intensified in 1858 when Darwin received Wallace's paper "On the tendency of varieties, without limit from the original style, which is closely aligned with their own ideas, the evolution of Darwin, not yet published. Darwin's friends, especially Hooker and the geologist Charles Lyell, were worried that Darwin can not be predicted, and soon arranged for the common reading ofDarwin and Wallace papers at the Linnean Society July 1, 1858. McCalman offers a fine for this procedure. He concludes that Darwin was looking for friends, before Darwin's position against that of Wallace, Wallace, but do not want their paper efforts have probably received a hearing.

McCalman does a good job of summarizing some similarities and differences between the ideas of Darwin and Wallace. He suggests that the mild social class played a role inPreponderance of Darwin recognized as an innovator. Darwin clearly had an advantage: it was free time in 1858-1859 to put together his thoughts in The Origin of Species, while Wallace was still busy trying to earn a living to earn in the Malay Archipelago. Darwin help later, a state pension for Wallace.

The book begins and ends with Darwin's 1882 funeral in Westminster Abbey, site of Huxley encouraged, but the journalist. Huxley, Hooker, and Wallacewere among the coffin.

Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution Overview

"Sparkling . . . an extraordinary true-adventure story, complete with trials, tribulations and moments of exultation."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review Award-winning cultural historian Iain McCalman tells the stories of Charles Darwin and his staunchest supporters: Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley, and Alfred Wallace. Beginning with the somber morning of April 26, 1882—the day of Darwin's funeral—Darwin's Armada steps back and recounts the lives and scientific discoveries of each of these explorers, who campaigned passionately in the war of ideas over evolution and advanced the scope of Darwin's work. 16 pages black-and-white illustrations

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