Clodd follows the idea of evolution from its birth among the Ionian Greeks, Thales and his successors through Lucretius, then explains why inquiry stalled for centuries under Church dogma, and traces its revival in the Renaissance and its triumph in the work of Darwin, Wallace, Spencer and Huxley.
An outspoken rationalist’s history of an idea, for readers interested in science and its quarrels with authority. Download the free EPUB.