The Reluctant Mr. Darwin

An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution

David Quammen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2007
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-32995-7 (ISBN)

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"Quammen brilliantly and powerfully re-creates the 19th century naturalist's intellectual and spiritual journey."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

Twenty-one years passed between Charles Darwin's epiphany that "natural selection" formed the basis of evolution and the scientist's publication of On the Origin of Species. Why did Darwin delay, and what happened during the course of those two decades? The human drama and scientific basis of these years constitute a fascinating, tangled tale that elucidates the character of a cautious naturalist who initiated an intellectual revolution.

David Quammen is the author of The Song of the Dodo, among other books. He has been honored with the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing, an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an award in the art of the essay from PEN, and (three times) the National Magazine Award. Quammen is also a contributing writer for National Geographic. He lives in Bozeman, Montana.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.7.2007
Reihe/Serie	Great Discoveries
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	137 x 203 mm
Gewicht	223 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
ISBN-10	0-393-32995-X / 039332995X
ISBN-13	978-0-393-32995-7 / 9780393329957
Zustand	Neuware