Charles Darwin
The Naturalist Who Started a Scientific Revolution
by Cyril Aydon
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"Cyril Aydon's account combines historical accuracy with a lucid overview of the science. He explains what The Origin of Species was about, and offers a ringside seat at the splendid row that followed publication. In an extended postscript, the author follows the changing fortunes of Darwinian theories according to fashions in intellectual thought, and in the context of two centuries of scientific speculation and discovery.
With conflict still raising its head in both the USA and the UK about the teaching of creationism alongside or instead of evolution in our schools, this book allows us to appreciate fully the greatness and the humanity of the father of evolutionary theory."--BOOK JACKET.
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Thanks to his family's wealth and forbearance, Dr. Darwin's gifted son could devote all his time to a passionate curiosity about the natural world. No one could have made better use of such advantages, and the young man's physical and intellectual excitement of the Beagle voyage comes freshly alive in this new biography, as do the years of painstaking work that followed that mind-altering experience. Darwin made major contributions to the study of geology, virtually invented the science of ecology, and his two major publications -- The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man -- changed forever our view of life on earth and man's place in the natural order. Cyril Aydon's account combines historical accuracy with a lucid overview of natural science. - Jacket flap.
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