James T. Costa
Autor de Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
Sobre El Autor
James T. Costa is executive director of Highlands Biological Station and a professor of biology at Western Carolina University.
Obras de James T. Costa
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1963-09-25
- Género
- male
- Educación
- State University of New York College at Cortland (BS | Biology and Philosophy | 1985)
University of Georgia (MS | Entomology and Community Ecology | 1988)
University of Georgia (PhD | Population Genetics and Entomology | 1992) - Ocupaciones
- professor (Biology | Western Carolina University)
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 8
- Miembros
- 141
- Popularidad
- #145,671
- Valoración
- 4.4
- Reseñas
- 8
- ISBNs
- 12
His eternal optimism in the face of setbacks, his intellectual curiosity , his modesty and graciousness, particularly in dealing with his co-discovery of natural selection and all the surrounding drama that entailed are admirable and his socialism and feminism even give him a bit of shine in an era that would be all too quick to dismiss him as a "typical colonial."
I was so glad to emerge from a biography with my admiration not only intact, but actually increased.… (más)