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Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
Cambridge University Press
June 2008
On Sale: April 25, 2008
336 pages
ISBN: 0521874122
EAN: 9780521874120
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Charles Darwin is a towering figure in the history of
science, who changed the direction of modern thought by
establishing the basis of evolutionary biology. With a
Foreword by Sir David Attenborough, this is a fascinating
insight into Darwin's life as he first directly addressed
the issues of humanity's place in nature, and the
consequences of his ideas for religious belief.
Incorporating previously unpublished material, this volume
includes letters written by Darwin, and also those written
to him by friends and scientific colleagues world-wide, by
critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and admirers who
helped them to spread. They take up the story of Darwin's
life in 1860, in the immediate aftermath of the publication
of On the Origin of Species, and carry it through one of
the most intense and productive decades of his career, to
the eve of publication of Descent of Man in 1871.
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