Darwin's Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England

Zusatztext Darwin's Island fills in the details of four decades that followed his five years on HMS Beagle. A professor of genetics and a gifted writer who has already successfully updated Darwin for the 21st century in an earlier book! Steve Jones is ideally place Informationen zum Autor Steve Jones is a Senior Research Fellow at University College, London and has worked at universities in the USA, Australia and Africa. He gave the Reith Lectures in 1991 and presented a BBC TV series on human genetics and evolution in 1996. He appears frequently on radio and television. Klappentext The Origin of Species may be the most famous book in science but its stature tends to obscure much of Charles Darwin's other works. His visit to the Galapagos lasted just five weeks and on his return he never left Britain again. Darwin spent forty years working on the plants, animals and people of his native land and wrote over six million words on topics as different as dogs, insect-eating plants, orchids, earthworms, apes and human emotion. Together they laid the foundations of modern biology. In this beautifully written, witty and illuminating book, Steve Jones explores the domestic Darwin, tracing the great naturalist's journey across Britain: a voyage not of the body, but of the mind. * The acclaimed book on Darwin's life and work, from one of our best-known and loved scientists Zusammenfassung * The acclaimed book on Darwin's life and work, from one of our best-known and loved scientists

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Professor Steve Jones, Steve Jones, Jones Steve
• Editore: Abacus
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.04.2010
• EAN: 9780349121413
• ISBN: 978-0-349-12141-3
• Pagine: 352
• Dimensioni: 151 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Serie: ABACUS
• Categorie: Saggistica > Natura, tecnica > Scienze naturali; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; Darwin, Charles, Evolution (Abstammungslehre), SCIENCE / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Evolution / Evolutionary biology