Wilhelm Bölsche follows Ernst Haeckel from boyhood and university through his research on the tiny marine radiolarians, his conversion to Darwinism, the stormy scientific congress of 1863 and the ambitious General Morphology, written in the valley of the Saale at Jena. It is an admiring portrait by a fellow popularizer of evolution.
A lively life of one of the most influential and controversial scientists of the nineteenth century. Download the free EPUB.