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The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution.(Brief article)(Book review)

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From: Biography
Date: 20070101
Author:Kevles, Bettyann Holtzmann

Darwin, Charles The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution. David Quammen. New York: Norton, 2006. 304 pp. $22.95.

"Darwin's behavior is still puzzling. He ached for recognition from his scientific peers, but as David Quammen suggests with his title--The Reluctant Mr. Darwin--Darwin postponed publishing the very theory he wanted recognition for discovering. To explain this reluctance to publish, Quammen concentrates on Darwin's intellectual and emotional life beginning in 1837, soon after he returned from five ...

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