A Reason for Everything: Darwinism and the English Imagination - Couverture rigide

Kohn, Marek

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0571223923 ISBN 13 : 9780571223923

Editeur : Faber and Faber, 2004

Synopsis

A Reason for Everything is about Britain and natural history, butterflies and snails, impassioned beliefs, and ideological struggles. The book begins with Alfred Russel Wallace, who discovered the idea of natural selection for himself in 1858, while his own life hung in a precarious, malarial balance - and closes with a portrait of Richard Dawkins, Britain's most prominent living advocate of natural selection. Charting the lives of some of the major thinkers in the years between, including Ronald Aylmer Fisher, J. B. S. Haldane, John Maynard Smith and Bill Hamilton, A Reason for Everything is an elegant and sophisticated account of Darwinism's progression from the nineteenth-century to the present.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Marek Kohn is the author of The Race Gallery, A Reason for Everything, Dope Girls and Trust. He lives in Sussex and is a Fellow at the University of Brighton Faculty of Arts. Kohn is a wonderful writer , said AC Grayling, and Andrew Brown called him one of the best of our science writers .

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber and Faber
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0571223923
• ISBN 13: 9780571223923
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible