Darwin's Ghosts by Rebecca Stott
The Secret History of Evolution
Spurred by a mid-19th-century naturalist’s effort to acknowledge the thinkers who came before him, this narrative uncovers a hidden lineage of evolutionary ideas stretching from Aristotle and Al-Jahiz to Buffon, Erasmus Darwin, Lamarck, Robert Chambers, and Wallace. Through vivid portraits of their experiments, arguments, and the risks of heresy and censorship they faced, it shows how scattered insights about transformation, adaptation, and the struggle for existence slowly converged into a new understanding of life’s history.
- Published
- 2012
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 400–432
- Original Language
- English
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