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

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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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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