An Oxford zoologist traces Darwin from boyhood through Edinburgh and Cambridge, the voyage of the Beagle, years of work on barnacles and geology at Down, and the slow growth of the Origin of Species. Poulton then follows the theory itself through the controversies of 1858 to 1894, quoting copiously from the scientists who fought over it.
A Victorian evolutionist’s account of Darwin, written while the debate over natural selection was still live. Download the free EPUB.