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A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin's Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution by Jeremy Desilva (Editor) Janet Browne (Foreward)
Category: Science
Leading scholars take stock of Darwin's ideas about human evolution in the light of modern science In 1871, Charles Darwin published The Descent of Man, a companion to Origin of Species in which he attempted to explain human evolution, a topic he called 'the highest and most interesting problem for the ...Show more
Charles Darwin Volume 1: Voyaging by Janet Browne (Professor of History of Biology, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College, London)
Category: Biography Memoir
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 inspiring discoveries and controversies more than 100 years after his death. Yet, only with the publication of Voyaging, the fir ...Show more
Charles Darwin Volume 2: The Power of Place by Janet Browne (Professor in History of Biology, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College, London)
Category: Biography
'I never saw a more striking coincidence,' said Darwin unhappily in 1858. Unknown to him, Alfred Russel Wallace had arrived independently at the same theory of evolution by natural selection. This concluding volume of Janet Browne's biography covers the transformation in Darwin's life after the fir ...Show more
Charles Darwin: v. 1: Voyaging by Janet Browne
Category: Biography Memoir
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 inspiring discoveries and controversies more than 100 years after his death. Yet, only with the publication of "Voyaging", the f ...Show more
Darwin's Origin of Species by Browne Janet
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Ten Books That Changed the World S.
An enlightening and highly readable introduction to the book that altered forever our understanding of what it is to be human. There is grandeur in this view of life . . . whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beauti ...Show more
The Quotable Darwin by Janet Browne
Category: Science
A treasure trove of illuminating and entertaining quotations from the legendary naturalistHere is Charles Darwin in his own words-the naturalist, traveler, scientific thinker, and controversial author of On the Origin of Species, the book that shook the Victorian world. Featuring hundreds of quotations ...Show more
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