Origin Story: The Trials of Charles Darwin - Hardcover

Markel, Howard

 
9781324036746: Origin Story: The Trials of Charles Darwin
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1324036745 ISBN 13: 9781324036746
Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

By early morning of June 30, 1860, a large crowd began to congregate in front of Oxford University’s brand-new Museum of Natural History. The occasion was the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and the subject of discussion was Charles Darwin’s new treatise: fact or fiction?Darwin, a simultaneously reclusive and intellectually audacious squire from Kent, claimed to have solved “that mystery of mysteries,” introducing a logical explanation of the origin of species—how they adapted, even transmogrified, through natural selection. At stake, on that summer’s day of spirited debate, was the very foundation of modern biology, not to mention the future of the church. Without fear of exaggeration, Darwin’s thesis would forever change our understanding of the life sciences and the natural world. And yet the author himself was nowhere to be found in the debate hall—instead, he was miles away, seeking respite from a spate of illnesses that had plagued him for much of his adult life.Origin Story,On the Origin of Species

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Howard Markel, MD, PhD, has practiced pediatrics and taught medical history at Johns Hopkins and University of Michigan. An award-winning author of The Secret of Life, National Academy of Medicine member, and Guggenheim fellow, he lives in New York.

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Verlag
WW Norton & Co
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
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Englisch
ISBN 10 
1324036745
ISBN 13 
9781324036746
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352
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