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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"On The Origin Of Species"”.
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Metromorphosis : evolution on the urban island
Cities are very much alive. Like islands, they provide a natural testing ground for evolution. With more than half of the world's population living in urban areas now, the influence cities have on the planet's life is enormous. But can they produce species? Foxes are learning to take advantage of …
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Evolving Minds: Helping Students with Cognitive Dissonance
… 150 years after Charles Darwin published <em>On the Origin of Species</em>, public school teachers still find themselves dealing with student resistance to learning about biological evolution. Some teachers deal with this pressure by undermining, deemphasizing, or even omitting the topic in …
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"There was No Sign of Man in It": Casting Dracula as Posthuman and Valuing the Progressive Vampire
… has since become a seminal example of Gothic horror at the <em>fin-de-siècle</em>, leading not only to film, stage, and television adaptations, but also to literary reimaginings and a plethora of scholarship. I argue that the vampires in <em>Dracula </em>do not fit into the …
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Unbound: An Origin Story
In Unbound, I embark on a semi-autobiographical quest, through which I reflect on the subject of a ‘myth of origin'. I rely on the two foundational yet competing epistemes that have been shaping my understanding of the concept throughout my life: On one end, the dogmatic Abrahamic mythology with …
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On the origin of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' : science, religion, and the natural world in early Victorian Scotland
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation was the first book published in Britain in the nineteenth century that made a comprehensive case arguing for the evolution of life. It appeared anonymously fifteen years before Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, and it was read and discussed by many …
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Natural Disorder: The Animal Image in French and British Art before Darwin, c. 1790-1859
This study of the animal form in French and British art reveals humanity's shifting self-image as new theories of species transmutation replaced hierarchical models of nature in the half-century before the publication of Charles Darwin's <italic>On the Origin of Species</italic> in 1859. To assert …
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The Reconciliation of Science and Religion in Symbolo-Fideism
<p>From the publication in 1859 of On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, religion was in open warfare against science. By the end of the century the war was not going well for religion. Biology, anthropology, archeology, the "higher criticism" united in an attack on Christian …
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“Bound together by a web”: Victorian literary and cultural conceptions of human-nature entanglement
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms