Richard Owen
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Critical Lives
ISBN-10
178914762X
ISBN-13
9781789147629
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Imprint
Reaktion Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 1st, 2023
Print length
168 Pages
Weight
270 grams
Dimensions
13.00 x 20.00 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
Biography: science, technology & medicineBiography: science, technology and medicine
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A new account of the brilliant and influential yet combative naturalist Richard Owen.
Brilliant, hard-working, immensely productive and influential, the naturalist Richard Owen was a great promoter of science, and played a large role in shaping London’s Natural History Museum. An often difficult and arrogant individual, he was accused of plagiarism and bullying, and is the only man whom Charles Darwin claimed to hate. Although strongly opposed to Darwin and Thomas Huxley’s theories of evolution through natural selection, there is evidence that a few of Owen’s ideas were not so very distant from theirs. This biography gives an account of Owen’s life and work, providing possible psychological and social reasons for his more controversial characteristics and his sometimes rather strained relations with various scientific contemporaries.
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