Darwin and the Barnacle - Couverture rigide

Stott, Rebecca

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0571209661 ISBN 13 : 9780571209668

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 2003

Synopsis

In 1846 Darwin had a secret: an essay sealed in an envelope and locked in his study drawer which would overturn human understanding of time and nature forever. Before he published, he had just one more riddle to solve, that of the strange anatomy of a barnacle, nick-named Mr Arthrobalanus, found in South America during the voyage of the Beagle. Abberant creatures like these are the key to the processes of natural selection, but eight years later, with a study filled with hundreds of barnacle specimens, the case is still unclosed. Was Darwin hesitating? Or was he testing his "dangerous idea" to destruction? "Darwin and the Barnacle" is the story of how genius sometimes proceeds through indirection - and how one small creature contributed to history's most spectacular scientific breakthrough.

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À propos de l'auteur

Rebecca Stott is a writer, academic and radio broadcaster. She teaches in the English Literature Department of Anglia Polytechnic University in Cambridge and is an affiliated scholar in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University. She has no aquarium and enjoys seafood. She lives in Cambridge and no longer dreams of barnacles.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0571209661
• ISBN 13: 9780571209668
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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