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Earthworm Ecology - From Darwin to Vermiculture (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983)
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Earthworm Ecology - From Darwin to Vermiculture (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983)
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'Darwin cleared: official' This 1982 Times (7 January) head line of
a first leader, reporting the astonishing case brought in Arkansas
against compulsory teaching of a biblical account of creation,
hopefully set at rest doubts about Darwin in the minds of a public
confused by media presentations of such unfamiliar concepts as
punctuated equilibria, cladism and phenetics. Mud sticks, but
Darwin's perturbed ghost may have found some consolation in the
concurrent celebrations at Grange-over-Sands, a modest township in
Cumbria, UK, of the centenary of the publication of his less
controversial book The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the
Action of Worms. In the form of a symposium on earthworm ecology,
this attracted some 150 participants, predominantly
adrenalin-charged research workers in the full heat of peer-group
interaction. This book comprises a selection of the more
ecologically oriented papers contributed to the symposium, brutally
edited in the interests of brevity and thematic continuity. The
book opens with an appraisal of Darwin's earthworm work in its
historical and philosophical context and relates his views on
'vegetable mould' to current concepts of humus formation.
Thereafter, quotations from Darwin made out of piety have been
rigorously excluded. Subsequent sections each comprise a review
chapter and two or three 'case studies' presenting new data on a
related topic."
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