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John Fiske's philosophy of science : the union of science and religion through the principle of evolution

Creator:

Lester, Jacob Franklin

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Modern science was produced by a Christian society, and although science has had an effect on Christianity, it could not itself remain unaffected. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the subject of evolution was as much a religious as a scientific issue. The battle line was drawn and...

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Dissertation

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Date thesis is presented April 10, 1979 Typed by Alice C. Lester for Jacob Franklin Lester
The coloration of animals : a nineteenth century controversy

Creator:

Blaisdell, Muriel Louise

Abstract:

Mimicry, obscure colors, and secondary sexual colors were important classes of observations that were analyzed by nineteenth century biologists from several vantage points. Adherents of the doctrine of special creation of fixed species believed animal colors to be evidence of design; Darwin and Wallace and their successors suggested that a...

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Masters Thesis

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Wallace and their successors suggested that a natural process, natural selection, had produced the
The marine biological station of San Diego : its development as related to the ideas and ideals of William Emerson Ritter (1856-1944)

Creator:

Alexander, Gail Marie

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A number of historians of science have been involved in studying the nature of biology at the turn of the century, and the picture that they have developed describes biology during this time as a field struggling to define itself. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, biologists were...

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Masters Thesis