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Darwin's Man in Brazil - The Evolving Science of Fritz Muller (Hardcover)
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Darwin's Man in Brazil - The Evolving Science of Fritz Muller (Hardcover)
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Fritz Muller (1821-1897), though not as well known as his colleague
Charles Darwin, belongs in the cohort of great nineteenthcentury
naturalists. In Darwin's Man in Brazil, David A. West recovers
Muller's legacy. He describes the close intellectual kinship
between Muller and Darwin, detailing a lively correspondence
spanning seventeen years, in which the two men often discussed new
research topics and exchanged ideas. Darwin frequently praised
Muller's powers of observation and interpretation, counting him
among those scientists whose opinions he valued most. A free
thinker who refused to sign the Christian oaths required of
teachers in Prussia, Muller emigrated to Brazil in 1852 to become a
pioneer farmer researching tropical biology. In the 1860s he
reorganized his biological research in order to test Darwin's
theory of evolution. Conducting field studies to answer questions
generated from a Darwinian perspective, Muller was unique among
naturalists testing Darwin's theory of natural selection because he
investigated an enormous diversity of plants and animals rather
than a relatively narrow range of taxa. Despite the importance and
scope of his work, however, Muller is known for relatively few of
his discoveries. West remedies this oversight, chronicling the life
and work of this remarkable and overlooked man of science.
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