The Statesman and the Ophthalmologist: Gladstone and Magnus on the Evolution of Human Colour Vision, One Small Episode of the Nineteenth-century Darwinian Debate

Annals of Science

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-45

  Bellmer, Elizabeth Henry ^a  

^a Trinity College   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; EVOLUTION; GERMANY; HISTORY; OPHTHALMOLOGY; POLITICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

COLOR PERCEPTION; EVOLUTION; GERMANY; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; OPHTHALMOLOGY; POLITICS;

EID: 0032606093     PISSN: 00033790     EISSN: 1464505X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000337999296517     Document Type: Article

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