Darwin's Origin of the Species by Janet Browne
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 sensation on its publication in 1859, The Origin of the Species profoundly shocked Victorian readers by calling into question the belief in a Creator with its description of evolution through natural selection. And Darwin's seminal work is nearly as controversial today. In her illuminating study, Browne delves into the long genesis of Darwin's theories, from his readings as a university student and his five-year voyage on the Beagle, to his debates with contemporaries and experiments in his garden. She explores the shock to Darwin when he read of competing scientist's similar discoveries and the wide and immediate impact of Darwin's theories on the world. As one of the launch titles in Atlantic Monthly Press' Books That Changed the World series, Browne's history takes readers inside The Origin of the Species and shows why it can fairly claim to be the greatest science book ever published.Janet Browne is the author of Charles Darwin: Voyaging and Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, a two-volume biography of Charles Darwin for which she received the Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society for the second volume. At Harvard University, she is the Aramont Professor of Science History.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780871139535 |
| ISBN 10 | 0871139537 |
| Title | Darwin's Origin of the Species |
| Author | Janet Browne |
| Series | Books That Changed The World |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Atlantic Monthly Press |
| Year published | 2007-03-12 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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