Young Charles Darwin

by Keith S. Thomson

Book Overview

On the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species, a new investigation of Darwin's early years and how he arrived at his revolutionary ideas

What sort of person was the young naturalist who developed an evolutionary idea so logical, so dangerous, that it has dominated biological science for a century and a half? How did the quiet and shy Charles Darwin produce his theory of natural selection when many before him had started...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030016789X
• ISBN13: 9780300167894
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 9.1"