Author: Rebecca Stott
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 1400069378
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Citing an 1859 letter that accused Charles Darwin of failing to acknowledge his scientific predecessors, a chronicle of the collective history of evolution dedicates each chapter to an evolutionary thinker, from Aristotle and da Vinci to Denis Diderot to the naturalists of the Jardin de Plantes. 20,000 first printing.