Darwin's Luck —— Chance and Fortune in the Life and Work of Charles Darwin

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ISBN: 9781847251503 出版年：2009 页码：212 Patrick H Armstrong Bloomsbury Publishing

1. Charles Robert Darwin: life of privilege or subject of ill-fortune? 2. The advantages of family. The legacy of the Darwins and Wedgwoods money, class, influence and genetics. 3. Boyhood and school. Adversity and triumph, death of his mother the origins of a naturalist. 4. Edinburgh: the medicine manque: learning how to learn observing humanity boredom in lectures the magnetic Dr Grant dealing with failure 'You care for nothing but shooting and rat catching and will become a disgrace to your family'. 5. Cambridge the importance of friendships and associations: Cousin Fox, John Henslow, Adam Sedgwick. 6. The Origins of the Beagle Voyage: the role of chance. 7. Good and bad luck during the voyage: the extraordinary good fortune of the order in which places were visited islands and continents. Storm, tempest, earthquake, revolution, shipwreck and death. Darwin's mistakes. 8. Fanny and Emma: Darwin's women - the girlfriend and the wife the best woman won! 9. Darwin's illness(es) tropical infection, poison or psychosomatics? 10. The long period of rumination at Down: barnacles and gardens home and family. Good years and bad. 11. 'The bolt from the blue': Wallace's letter and the publication of the Origin. 12. The vital role of friends: Lyell, Hooker and Huxley. 13. Good times and bad in the later years. 14. Final illness and death: the churchyard in Down or Westminster Abbey?