Metaphysics, Materialism, and the Evolution of Mind: The Early Writings of Charles Darwin

by Howard E. Gruber, Paul H. Barrett, Charles Darwin

Book Overview

First published in 1974 as a companion volume to Darwin on Man by Howard E. Gruber, Paul Barrett's transcriptions of Darwin's M and N notebooks served to shed new light on the evolutionist's methods and motivation.

According to Stephen Jay Gould in the New York Times Book Review, "Darwin kept these notebooks] primarily in 1838, when he was 29 years old. In them, he recorded his early conviction of evolutionary continuity between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226136590
• ISBN13: 9780226136592
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.9"