Writing tagged: ‘charles darwin’
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Why are you such a Darwin groupie?
Much to my surprise, I am asked this question quite a lot…
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Didn’t Karl Marx offer to dedicate Das Kapital to Darwin?
It’s well known that the father of international socialism, Karl Marx, offered to dedicate one of the volumes of ‘Das Kapital’ to Charles Darwin. However…
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A miserable birthday aboard HMS Beagle
On Charles Darwin’s miserable 23rd birthday (his first aboard HMS Beagle).
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Book review: ‘The Reluctant Mr Darwin’ by David Quammen
An intimate portrait of Charles Darwin and the making of his theory of evolution.
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Book review: ‘Darwin in Cambridge’ by John van Wyhe
A useful booklet about Darwin’s Cambridge connections.
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Book review: ‘The Great Naturalists’ by Robert Huxley (ed.)
A whistle-stop tour of the history of natural history.
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Book review: ‘Fossils, Finches and Fuegians’ by Richard Keynes
Charles Darwin’s adventures and siscoveries on the Beagle, 1832-1836.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 7: 1858–1859’
Darwin’s correspondence leading up to the publication of ‘On the Origin of Species’.