DARWIN'S CENTURY -- EVOLUTION AND THE MEN WHO DISCOVERED IT

by Loren Eiseley, © 1958 by Loren Eiseley

The Firmament of Time, by Loren Eiseley
The Invisible Pyramid -- A Naturalist Analyses the Rocket Century, by Loren Eiseley
The Immense Journey, by Loren Eiseley

To Carl Frederick Wittke distinguished historian and friend of those whom history has forgotten this book is dedicated

Table of Contents:

• Inside Cover
• I. The Age of Discovery
  The Voyagers -- The Two Ladders and the Scale of Being -- The Baconian and Humanistic Traditions in Natural History -- Linnaeus -- The Fixity of Species
• II. The Time Voyagers
  The Extraordinary Voyage -- Benoit de Maillet -- The Comte de Buffon -- Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck --  Early Glimpses of Ecological Adaptation
• III. The Pirate Chart
  Time and Organic Change -- Pagan and Christian Time -- The Chart -- The Rise of Catastrophism -- James Hutton's World Machine and Uniformitarianism -- William Smith -- Cuvier: the Magician of the Charnel House
• IV. Progressionism and Evolution
  Geological Prophecy -- Sir Charles Lyell and the Re-emergence of Uniformitarianism -- Non-progressionism
• V. The Minor Evolutionists
  Branching Evolution -- William Wells -- Patrick Matthew and Robert Chambers
• VI. The Voyage of the Beagle
  The Age of Giants -- The Influence of Erasmus Darwin -- Darwin's Intellectual Background -- The Voyage -- South America -- The Galapagos
• VII. The Making of the Origin
  "The Bridgewater Treatises -- Darwin and Malthus -- The Law of Divergence -- The First Essay Attempts -- Darwin and Design -- Darwin and Lamarck
• VIII. The Priest Who Held the Key to Evolution
  Gregor Mendel -- Pre-Mendelian Genetics -- Pangenesis -- Artificial Selection and the Evolutionists --  Mendel's Contribution -- Johannsen and Variation
• IX. Darwin and the Physicists
  Kelvin and Residual Heat -- The Biological Retreat --  De Vries and Saltatory Evolution -- Time and Radioactivity
• X. The Reception of the First Missing Links
  The Evolutionists Turn to Man -- Ape and Hottentot -- The Microcephali -- The Descent into the Past -- The Java Ape Man
• XI. Wallace and the Brain
  The Darwinian Bias -- Alfred Russel Wallace -- Darwin and Human Evolution -- Degeneration or Development -- Wallace and Human Antiquity --  The Concept of Latency -- Brains and Time
• XII. Conclusion
  Time: Cyclic and Historic -- The Pre-Darwinian Era -- The Struggle of the Parts -- Evolution and Human Culture -- The Role of Indeterminism
• Glossary
• Suggested Reading