Origin Story: The Trials of Charles Darwin

by Howard Markel

Book Overview

By early morning of June 30, 1860, a large crowd began to congregate in front of Oxford University's brand-new Museum of Natural History. The occasion was the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and the subject of discussion was Charles Darwin's new treatise: fact or fiction?

Darwin, a simultaneously reclusive and intellectually audacious squire from Kent, claimed to have solved "that mystery of mysteries,"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324036745
• ISBN13: 9781324036746
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"