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An Economist Best Book of 2024A lively account of how Darwin's work on natural selection transformed science and society, and an investigation into the mysterious illness that plagued its author.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," introducing a logical explanation of the origin of species—how they adapted, even transmogrified, through natural selection. At stake, on that summer's day of spirited debate, was the very foundation of modern biology, not to mention the future of the church. Without fear of exaggeration, Darwin's...

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Author

Howard Markel

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Published

2024

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Biography, Science, Mathematics & Technology