Charles Darwin

Voyaging

Recommended by Jerry Coyne, and 1 others. See all reviews

Ranked #95 in History Of Science

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 a hundred years after his death. Yet only now, with the publication of Voyaging, the first of two volumes that will constitute the definitive biography, do we have a truly vivid and comprehensive picture of Darwin as man and as scientist. Drawing upon much new material, supported by an unmatched acquaintance with both the intellectual setting and the voluminous... more

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Jerry Coyne This may be the best scientific biography I have ever read. It’s just absolutely engrossing. (Source)


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