Charles Darwin

The Kingdom of Speech

When the acclaimed American author Tom Wolfe died in 2018, he left a rich body of work whose stylistic blend…

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Charles Darwin, Geologist

Many of us know the story of how Charles Darwin (1809–1882) took a five-year voyage aboard The Beagle to the…

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Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design

Many of the ideas brilliantly and compellingly explored in Why Darwin Matters made a showing in certain chapters of three…

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Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution

Life Ascending, by the author of Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World and Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the…

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Rebel Giants: The Revolutionary Lives of Abraham Lincoln & Charles Darwin

Rebel Giants, David Contosta’s latest book, offers a timely examination of the lives of two men who transformed their world—and…

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Hitler and the Nazi Darwinian World View

Untangling the cause and effect relationships embedded in historical events can be a complicated endeavor. This is especially true when complex…

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The Evolution of Charles Darwin: John Darnton on the Life and Work of the Father of Evolution

British biologist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) laid the foundations of the theory of evolution and transformed the way we think about…

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Why Evolution is True

The theory of evolution by natural selection, first described in 1859 by Charles Darwin, has often been described as the…

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Charles Darwin: Voyaging

Janet Browne has smartly applied her work of studying correspondence from Charles Darwin to her two-volume biography of Darwin’s life. And…

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The Evolution of Charles Darwin: John Darnton on the Life and Work of the Father of Evolution

  Charles Darwin (1809–1882) laid the foundations of evolutionary biology through the process of natural selection, which he outlined in…

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