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)

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)

From his 1831 voyage aboard the H.M.S. Beagle to his death in 1882, Charles Darwin experiences grueling sea passages, conducts demanding scientific research, and encounters opposition to his theory of evolution

"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)

"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)

《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。

A fresh look at Darwin's most radical idea, and the mysteriously slow process by which he revealed it. Evolution, during the early nineteenth century, was an idea in the air. Other thinkers had suggested it, but no one had proposed a cogent explanation for how evolution occurs. Then, in September 1838, a young Englishman named Charles Darwin hit upon the idea that "natural sel...(展开全部)