Darwin's Laboratory : : Evolutionary Theory and Natural History in the Pacific / / ed. by Philip F. Rehbock, Roy Macleod.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Amundson, Ron,; Benson, Keith R.,; Browne, Janet,; Butcher, Barry W.,; Camerini, Jane R.,; Christie, Nancy J.,; Garber, Janet,; Gunson, Niel,; Kay, E. Alison,; Kuklick, Henrika,; Laurent, John,; Macleod, Roy,; Payne, Pauline,; Rehbock, Philip F.,; Sohmer, Sara,; Stenhouse, John,; Stoddart, David R.,
• HerausgeberIn: Macleod, Roy,; Rehbock, Philip F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2022]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (552 p.)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE Nature's Diversity and the Research Site of the Pacific -- 1 "This Coral Episode" Darwin, Dana, and the Coral Reefs of the Pacific -- 2 Darwin's Biogeography and the Oceanic Islands of the Central Pacific, 1859-1909 -- 3 Evolution, Biogeography, and Maps: An Early History of Wallace's Line -- 4 John T. Gulick and the Active Organism Adaptation, Isolation, and the Politics of Evolution -- 5 Embryology and Empire The Balfour Students and the Quest for Intermediate Forms in the Laboratory of the Pacific -- PART TWO Exchange Networks and the Organization of Research -- 6 Darwin's Correspondents in the Pacific Through the Looking Glass to the Antipodes -- 7 The Darwinian Legacy in the Pacific Northwest: Seattle's Young Naturalists' Society, P. Brooks Randolph, and Conchology -- 8 "Science at the Periphery" Dr. Schomburgk's Garden -- PART THREE Natives, Colonials, and Anthropologists -- 9 Missionaries and the Human Mind Charles Darwin and Robert FitzRoy -- 10 British Missionaries and Their Contribution to Science in the Pacific Islands -- 11 The Melanesian Mission and Victorian Anthropology: A Study in Symbiosis -- 12 The Color Blue: From Research in the Torres Strait to an Ecology of Human Behavior -- PART FOUR Social Darwinisms -- 13 Darwinism, Social Darwinism, and the Australian Aborigines: A Réévaluation -- 14 The Darwinian Enlightenment and New Zealand Politics -- 15 Environment and Race Geography's Search for a Darwinian Synthesis -- 16 Varieties of Social Darwinism in Australia, Japan, and Hawaii, 1883-1921 -- Contributors -- Index