Collecting Evolution
The Galapagos Expedition that Vindicated Darwin
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 23 July 2020
- ISBN 9780197508374
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages306 pages
- Size 156x234x17 mm
- Weight 472 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 47 illustrations 51
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Short description:
The story of the 1905-1906 voyage by the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands, during which over 78,000 species were collected.
MoreLong description:
In 1905, eight men from the California Academy of Sciences set sail from San Francisco for a scientific collection expedition in the Galapagos Islands, and by the time they were finished in 1906, they had completed one of the most important expeditions in the history of both evolutionary and conservation science. These scientists collected over 78,000 specimens during their time on the islands, validating the work of Charles Darwin and laying the groundwork for foundational evolution texts like Darwin's Finches. Despite its significance, almost nothing has been written on this voyage, lost amongst discussion of Darwin's trip on the Beagle and the writing of David Lack.
In Collecting Evolution, author Matthew James finally tells the story of the 1905 Galapagos expedition. James follows these eight young men aboard the Academy to the Galapagos and back, and reveals the reasons behind the groundbreaking success they had. A current Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences, James uses his access to unpublished writings and photographs to provide unprecedented insight into the expedition. We learn the voyagers' personal stories, and how, for all the scientific progress that was made, just as much intense personal drama unfolded on the trip. This book shares a watershed moment in scientific history, crossed with a maritime adventure. There are four tangential suicides and controversies over credit and fame. Collecting Evolution also explores the personal lives and scientific context that preceded this voyage, including what brought Darwin to the Galapagos on the Beagle voyage seventy years earlier. James discusses how these men thought of themselves as "collectors" before they thought of themselves as scientists, and the implications this had on their approach and their results.
In the end, the voyage of the Academy proved to be crucial in the development of evolutionary science as we know it. It is the longest expedition in Galapagos history, and played a critical role in cementing Darwin's legacy. Collecting Evolution brings this extraordinary story of eight scientists and their journey to life.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgements
Note to the Reader
Prologue
1. Halfway to the Stars
2. Walking in Darwin's Footsteps
3. Setting Sail from San Francisco
4. Before It Is Too Late
5. Collecting Evolution
6. Galapagos at Last
7. Confluence: Where Geography and Ideas Meet
8. On Death, and Life, in Galapagos
9. Down to the Sea in Ships: Ship's Log, 1905
10. Rising from the Ashes
11. Ship's Log, 1906
12. That Sinking Feeling
13. Darwin's Islands Meet the Plant Wizard of Santa Rosa
14. The Voyage Home: Ship's Log
15. Vindicating Darwin
Epilogue -- Legacy: Recent Use of California Academy of Sciences Specimens
Chronology of the 1905 -- 1906 Galapagos Expedition
Bibliography
Index
