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A Most Interesting Problem
Leading scholars take stock of Darwin's ideas about human evolution in the light of modern scienceIn 1871, Charles Darwin published The Descent of Man, a companion to Origin of …
Charles Darwin Volume 2
This concluding volume of Janet Browne's biography covers the transformation in Darwin's life after the first unexpected announcement of the theory of evolution by natural …
The Descent of Man
In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species: finding in the traits and instincts of animals the origins of the mental …
The Voyage of the Beagle
The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events leading to The Origin of Species. This Penguin …
Charles Darwin: Voyaging
Few lives of great men offer so much interest - and so many mysteries - as the life of Charles Darwin, the greatest figure of nineteenth-century science, whose ideas are still …
Dictionary of the History of Science
For readers interested in the development of major scientific concepts and the role of science in the western world, here is the first conceptually organized historical dictionary …
Charles Darwin: The Power of Place
In 1858, Charles Darwin was forty-nine years old, a gentleman scientist living quietly at Down House in the Kent countryside. He was not yet a focus of debate; his "big book on …
The Quotable Darwin
A treasure trove of illuminating and entertaining quotations from the legendary naturalist Here is Charles Darwin in his own words--the naturalist, traveler, scientific thinker, …
Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 2, The
The 161 letters in this volume encompass a period of dramatic change for the young John Tyndall, who would become one of Victorian Britain's most famous physicists. They begin in …
Documents on the Confederation of British North America
A classic of Canadian history details the process by which Sir John A. Macdonald and the Fathers of Confederation drafted the Canadian Constitution
Darwin's Origin of Species
Charles Darwin's foremost biographer, Janet Browne, delivers a vivid and accessible introduction to the book that permanently altered our understanding of what it is to be human. A …
Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 6, The
This sixth volume of Tyndall's correspondence contains 302 letters covering a period of twenty-eight months (1856-1859). It begins shortly after Tyndall returned from his first …