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The Tragic Sense of Life examines the intellectual context as well as the intimate experiences and profound convictions that allowed Darwin.s message to become almost a religious calling for Haeckel. Far from shying away from the many controversies that marked Haeckel.s life and career, Richards engages Haeckel.s many challengers and dissenters, whose accusations against him range from the charge that he falsified some of his famous drawings to the supposedly proto-Nazi quality of his biological theories. Reappraising Haeckel.s accomplishments, artistic endeavors, many battles, personal relationships, and searing loves, Richards convincingly demonstrates the enormous impact Haeckel had on biology and larger scientific affairs during the last half of the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth centuries. The definitive account of Darwin.s greatest intellectual heir, The Tragic Sense of Life book is a sweeping reevaluation of the Romantic ideas and calamitous biography of a man whose vision of evolutionary theory is still influential today. «
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