Getting started: Charles Darwin's early steps toward a creative life in science

Journal of Adult Development

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 7-20

  Keegan, Robert T ^a  

^a PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biography; Case study; Creativity; Darwin; Development

Indexed keywords

EID: 27144547244     PISSN: 10680667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02265136     Document Type: Article

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