Darwin and Evolution
Material type: TextSeries: IntroducingPublication details: Cambridge Icon Books Ltd 2000Description: 174p pbISBN:- 1840461535
- 1840461535
- 9781840461534
- 576.82 MIL
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Non Fiction | The Harden Library, King's Hospital | General | GEN 576 MIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | R07741X0499 |
Progress in genetics today would not have been possible without Darbin's revolution, but the mysterious man who undermined belief in God's creation was remarkably timid. He spent most of his life in seclusion, a semi-invalid, riddled with doubts, fearing the controversy his theories might unleash. Jonathan Miller unravels Darwin's life and contribution to biology in a brilliantly lucid manner, and traces the path from his scientific predecessors to the later modifications that his own evolutionary theories required. In this way, he provides an unusually clear historical perspective on the progress from pre-Darwinian biology to modern genetics and the crucial discovery of chromosomes.
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