How to Read Darwin: 0 - Softcover

Ridley, Mark; Critchley, Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393328813 ISBN 13: 9780393328813

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: June 2006 Pages: 128 in Publisher: WW Norton & Co. Charles Darwin's permanent legacy is his oad. Abstract theories of evolution and natural selection theories that he tested against an astonishing array of natural history evidence in. his writing. Mark Ridley uses a question-and-answer approach to explain how Darwin carefully tackled problems. and shows here how the reader can understand Darwin's arguments by first working out which question Darwin had implicitly set himself to answer. Ridley concentrates on understanding Darwin's most important books. On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man. but he also examines a sample from one of Darwin's other works on the emotions. as one representative from Darwin's lesser-known works that ranged from flower pollination to coral reefs. from animal domestication to landscaping by earthworms.

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Ridley concentrates on understanding Darwin's most important books, On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man, but he also examines a sample from one of Darwin's other works on the emotions, as one representative from Darwin's lesser-known works that ranged from flower pollination to coral reefs, from animal domestication to landscaping by earthworms.

Review:

'Presents Darwin’s thought to the layman...clearly, simply and concisely' -- Times Literary Supplement

‘Lucid, erudite and informative’ -- Terry Eagleton, New Statesman

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0393328813
• ISBN 13: 9780393328813
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128