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Charles Darwin Volume 1: Voyaging by Janet Browne (Professor of History of Biology, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College, London)
Category: Biography
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 100 years after his death. Yet, only with the publication of Voyaging, the fir ...Show more
Charles Darwin Volume 2: The Power of Place by Janet Browne (Professor in History of Biology, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College, London)
Category: Biography
'I never saw a more striking coincidence,' said Darwin unhappily in 1858. Unknown to him, Alfred Russel Wallace had arrived independently at the same theory of evolution by natural selection. This concluding volume of Janet Browne's biography covers the transformation in Darwin's life after the fir ...Show more
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