A Reason for Everything: Darwinism and the English Imagination: Natural Selection and the British Imagination - Hardcover

Kohn, Marek

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571223923 ISBN 13: 9780571223923

Publisher: 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.

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Review:

"'Marek Kohn has written yet another brilliant book about great debates in science.' Neal Ascherson, Observer 'An educative and fascinating tale... Kohn is a wonderful writer.' A. C. Grayling, Literary Review 'A marvellous book.' New Scientist 'A real triumph.' Guardian"

Book Description:

A Reason for Everything is Marek Kohn's engrossing work on the evolution of evolution and the scientists working alongside and after Charles Darwin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0571223923
• ISBN 13: 9780571223923
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400