Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations xi
4. Preface xvii
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. 2. Formation of a Romantic Biologist 19
7. 3. Research in Italy and Conversion to Darwinism 55
8. 4. Triumph and Tragedy at Jena 79
9. 5. Evolutionary Morphology in the Darwinian Mode 113
10. 6. Travel to England and the Canary Islands: Experimental Justifi cation of Evolution 171
11. 7. The Popular Presentation of Evolution 217
12. 8. The Rage of the Critics 277
13. 9. The Religious Response to Evolutionism: Ants, Embryos, and Jesuits 343
14. 10. Love in a Time of War 391
15. 11. Conclusion: The Tragic Sense of Ernst Haeckel 439
16. Appendix 1: A Brief History of Morphology 455
17. Appendix 2: The Moral Grammar of Narratives in the History of Biology—the Case of Haeckel and Nazi Biology 489
18. Bibliography 513
19. Index 541