Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870

Frederick H. Burkhardt

ISBN 10: 0521874122 / ISBN 13: 9780521874120

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Synopsis:

Explore Darwin's world in a unique, first hand account through his letters, many of which have never been published before.

About the Authors: Frederick Burkhardt (1912-2007) was the founder of the Charles Darwin Correspondence Project, and the associated high profile book series The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press, 1985- ). He was President of the American Council of Learned Societies from 1957 to 1974, and in 2003 was awarded the American Philosophical Society Thomas Jefferson Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Arts, Humanities, or Social Sciences.

Alison Pearn is Assistant Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project, and an affiliated research scholar of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University.

Samantha Evans is an editor at the Charles Darwin Correspondence Project, based at Cambridge University Library. The Project was set up to locate, research, and publish summaries of all letters written by Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles ...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Hardback
Condition: New