Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Here is a fascinating, detailed look at the life of Charles Darwin: naturalist, geologist, and independent thinker. In his author's note, Caldecott Honor illustrator Peter Sis (Starry Messenger, Tibet: Through the Red Box) writes that Darwin always regretted not learning how to draw. However, he could and did take "dense and vivid" written notes...(展开全部)

《达尔文回忆录》是一部达尔文亲笔撰写的自传，主要讲述了这位挑战“神创论”和“物种不变论”的进化论鼻祖传奇的一生。全书以其年少时对自然科学萌发兴趣为开头，到历时五年的环球航行，又以其提出轰动生物界的生物进化论而收尾，体现了一位科学家的历史责任感。他的一切努力和研究对世界历史进程有着广泛而深远的影响。

《达尔文回忆录》是一部达尔文亲笔撰写的自传，主要讲述了这位挑战“神创论”和“物种不变论”的进化论鼻祖传奇的一生。全书以其年少时对自然科学萌发兴趣为开头，到历时五年的环球航行，又以其提出轰动生物界的生物进化论而收尾，体现了一位科学家的历史责任感。他的一切努力和研究对世界历史进程有着广泛而深远的影响。

Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets, priests, and schoolgirls. The world began to change in the 1830s, while Darwin was exploring the Pacific aboard the Beagle and Dickinson was a student in Amherst, Massachusetts. Poetry and science started to grow apart, and ...(展开全部)

Evolutionary theory ranks as one of the most powerful concepts of modern civilization. Its effects on our view of life have been wide and deep. One of the most world-shaking books ever published, Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species," first appeared in print over 130 years ago, and it touched off a debate that rages to this day. Every modern evolutionist turns to Darwin'...(展开全部)

Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets, priests, and schoolgirls. The world began to change in the 1830s, while Darwin was exploring the Pacific aboard the Beagle and Dickinson was a student in Amherst, Massachusetts. Poetry and science started to grow apart, and ...(展开全部)

Evolutionary theory ranks as one of the most powerful concepts of modern civilization. Its effects on our view of life have been wide and deep. One of the most world-shaking books ever published, Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species," first appeared in print over 130 years ago, and it touched off a debate that rages to this day. Every modern evolutionist turns to Darwin'...(展开全部)

"Quammen brilliantly and powerfully re-creates the 19th century naturalist's intellectual and spiritual journey."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review Twenty-one years passed between Charles Darwin's epiphany that "natural selection" formed the basis of evolution and the scientist's publication of On th...(展开全部)