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From: SciTech Book News
Date: 20060901
Author:
9780393059816
The reluctant Mr. Darwin; an intimate portrait of Charles Darwin and the making of his theory of evolution.
Quammen, David.
W.W. Norton
2006
304 pages
$22.95
Hardcover
Great discoveries
QH31
He did not found a movement or a religion says Montana-based writer of fiction and natural history Quammen, he never assembled a creed of scientific axioms and ascribed his name to them. He was in fact a reclusive biologist who wrote books on some minor and some major topics, made mistakes, and changed his mind. He admits that most ...
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