A giant of nineteenth-century natural history study, Louis Agassiz made major contributions to modern knowledge of geology, paleontology, and zoology. Agassiz's fame in America was largely as a popularizer of natural history and teacher of advanced students. Founding the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard was his lasting teaching and research achievement, and the Smithsonian Institution and National Academy of Sciences benefited from his impulse to professionalize science. A life-long opponent of the theory of evolution. Agassiz affirmed the magnificence of God's plan to all who would "study nature, not books".
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- Essay on Classification by Louis Agassiz on 18 pages
- The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin on 13 pages
- On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin on 13 pages
- First One Hundred Years of American Geology by George Perkins Merrill on 5 pages
- Charles Darwin: 2 by Julian Huxley on 5 pages
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- Reading the Shape of Nature: Comparative Zoology at the Agassiz Museum (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series) by Mary P. Winsor on 4 pages
- The Triumph of Evolution: The Heredity-Environment Controversy, 1900-1941 by Professor Hamilton Cravens in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples by Tim Flannery in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea by Helen M. Rozwadowski in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Art of History: African American Women Artists Engage the Past by Lisa Gail Collins in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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