Charles Darwin’s permanent legacy is his broad, abstract theories of evolution and natural selection, theories that he tested against an astonishing array of natural history evidence in his writing. Mark Ridley uses a question-and-answer approach to explain how Darwin carefully tackled problems, and shows here how the reader can understand Darwin’s arguments by first working out which question Darwin had implicitly set himself to answer.
Ridley concentrates on understanding Darwin’s most important books, On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man, but he also examines a sample from one of Darwin’s other works on the emotions, as one representative from Darwin’s lesser-known works that ranged from flower pollination to coral reefs, from animal domestication to landscaping by earthworms.
- ISBN10 0393328813
- ISBN13 9780393328813
- Publish Date 2 June 2006 (first published 7 February 2005)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 23 April 2017
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Paperback
- Pages 128
- Language English