Charles Darwin The Power of Place

Name: Charles Darwin The Power of Place
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ISBN: 9780691114392

ISBN-10: 0691114390

ISBN-13: 9780691114392

Edition: 2004

Authors: Janet Browne

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In 1858, Charles Darwin was forty-nine years old, a gentleman scientist living quietly at Down House in the Kent countryside. He was not yet a focus of debate; his "big book on species" still lay on his desk as a manuscript. For more than twenty years he had been accumulating material for it, puzzling over the questions that it raised, trying to bring it to a satisfactory conclusion, and wanting to be certain that his startling theory of evolution was correct. It is at this point that the concluding volume of Janet Browne's magisterial biography opens. Beginning with the extraordinary events that finally forced theOrigin of Speciesinto print, we come to the years of fame and controversy.…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/5/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 624
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.25" long x 1.61" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English




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