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Darwin: All That Matters
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| Weight | 0.228 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.2 × 13.6 × 18 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 160 |
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| Year Published | 2015-9-10 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 147360284X |
| About The Author | Alison Pearn is an historian and Associate Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project at Cambridge University. Since 1996 she has been happily researching and editing the 15,000 or so letters Darwin exchanged with an eclectic network of correspondents around the world, and, thanks to her colleagues, knows more than she ever thought she would about the minutiae of 19th century life and science. She admits to some responsibility for ten of the twenty volumes of Darwin's correspondence so far published, and has co-edited a volume of selected letters. She was one of the organisers of Cambridge University's international Darwin 2009 festival, curated an exhibition on the Beagle voyage and edited a companion guide, and has contributed to a number of academic and popular books and journals. She has appeared in podcasts and in radio programmes on three continents, but so far no one has let her near a TV studio. |
| Other text | Why does Charles Darwin still matter? Charles Darwin is among the most recognised names in the world, and more than 100 years after his death his books are still best-sellers. Darwin: All That Matters by leading academic Alison Pearn re-examines his life and his legacy.All That Matters books are written by the world's leading experts to introduce the most exciting and relevant areas of an important topic to students and general readers. From Bioethics to Muhammad and Philosophy to Sustainability, the All That Matters series covers the most controversial and engaging topics from science, philosophy, history, religion and other fields. The authors are world-class academics or top public intellectuals, on a mission to bring the most interesting and challenging areas of their subject to new readers. Each book contains a unique '100 ideas' section, giving inspiration to readers whose interest has been piqued and who want to explore the subject further. |
| Back Cover Copy | Why does Charles Darwin still matter? Darwin is hard to escape. His name continually crops up in a range of cultural contexts from novels to films, and he is still constantly in the news. He is one of a handful of scientists so universally known that he has become more a brand than a person. His ideas were game-changers, fundamentally altering how we think of our own place in the natural world, but they are often misunderstood, misrepresented or misapplied. Two events – the Beagle voyage and the publication, more than 20 years later, of his book On the Origin of Species – are so famous that they tend to distort any balanced appreciation of his life and achievements.The difficulty in explaining anything to do with Darwin is where to begin. Darwin: All That Matters separates the man from the myth, explaining how he was able to theorize so effectively about the common ancestry of all living things and arrive at the mechanism for species change that he called 'natural selection'. |
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