Charles Darwin's Reception in Germany and What Followed

150 years ago, Heinrich Bronn provided in the first German translation of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species a rather liberal interpretation, even adding his own view of Darwin's ideas in an additional 15th chapter. Ernst Haeckel widely popularized his view of Darwinian evolution based on...

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Autor principal: Meyer, Axel
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Book Review/Science in the Media
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2709432/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000162
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description 150 years ago, Heinrich Bronn provided in the first German translation of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species a rather liberal interpretation, even adding his own view of Darwin's ideas in an additional 15th chapter. Ernst Haeckel widely popularized his view of Darwinian evolution based on his reading of this translation. This was long seen - probably incorrectly - as the intellectual root of social Darwinism in Germany.
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spelling pubmed-27094322009-07-28 Charles Darwin's Reception in Germany and What Followed Meyer, Axel PLoS Biol Book Review/Science in the Media 150 years ago, Heinrich Bronn provided in the first German translation of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species a rather liberal interpretation, even adding his own view of Darwin's ideas in an additional 15th chapter. Ernst Haeckel widely popularized his view of Darwinian evolution based on his reading of this translation. This was long seen - probably incorrectly - as the intellectual root of social Darwinism in Germany. Public Library of Science 2009-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC2709432/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000162 Text en Axel Meyer. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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