I think your reaction to this book will be heavily dependent on your interest in and background knowledge of geology and botany. Almost the entire main text is made up of letters dealing with technical debates in these two broad fields and a good grounding is required in order to understand even wha...
This was the first published biography of Charles Darwin, as edited by one of his children. It's a little unusual in format, containing as it does, Darwin's (intended to be private) autobiography, a pile of Darwin's letters (up to 1860, the year Origin of Species was published), some memories from t...
Reading this feels a bit voyeuristic, in that it was intended as a family document rather than a public one. It's short and not a very good biography; it talks in little detail about Darwin's life or character, whilst rambling about the personalities of various other contemporary scientists, Darwin'...
Let me tell you how I got to this book. You may already know the dictum of Jean Paul Sartre about animals as ‘animated things’, that is animals are moving things without emotions. This has revolted me always, but only recently I delved into this, subsequent to my encounter with a calf.I have been ob...
IntroductionNote on the TextPrefacePostscript--The Voyage of the BeagleAn Historical SketchAuthor's Introduction--On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural SelectionGlossaryIndex to 'The Voyage of the Beagle'Index to 'The Origin of Species'
[ أنا لا أرى أي سبب وجيه في أن تُسبب الآراء التي قد تم تقديمها في هذا الكتاب أي صدمة للمشاعر الدينية الخاصة بأي فرد.وقد قام كاتب مرموق ولاهوتي بمكاتبتي بخصوص أنه قد تعلّم بالتدريج أن يرى أن التصور الراقي الخاص بالألوهية هو على نفس الدرجة تماماً من الإيمان بأنه قد قام بخلق العدد القليل من الأشكال الح...
Dit is het verhaal waarin de evolutietheorie geboren is. Het is best spannend om met deze kennis in het achterhoofd te beginnen met lezen. "Wanneer komt hij op de Galapagos-eilanden aan en ziet hij de vinken?!", is waar ik in het begin alleen maar aan kon denken. Wat uiteraard een beetje dom is, aan...
bookshelves: essays, philosophy, nonfiction, published-2007, winter-20132014, tbr-busting-2014, sciences, fraudio Read from January 03 to 05, 2014 The Portable Atheist read by Nicolas Ballanthology of atheist writing through the ages.1. Introduction by Christopher Hitchens2. Lucretius: from the N...
Decry or applaud it, there's no question this work has had a profound effect not just on science, but the culture at large. What I wouldn't read this book for is the science, or in an effort to either defend or refute the argument for evolution. The core of Darwin's argument certainly is still what ...
My book group selected this book for discussion probably because of the historic impact it has had on the field of science. However, I found it to be very worthy of respect from a literary viewpoint. Charles Darwin's writing comes across as a methodical thinker and patient explainer to many recalc...
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