Darwin and the Barnacle

Rebecca Stott

Darwin and the Barnacle
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Country
United Kingdom
Published
4 March 2004
Pages
336
ISBN
9780571216093

Darwin and the Barnacle

Rebecca Stott

It is 1846. Darwin is poised to publish The Origin of Species, and blow the scientific world apart. But one small creature makes him hesitate … First, he decides to solve the riddle of a tiny barnacle he picked up on the shores of southern Chile, the last of his Beagles specimens - the investigation takes eight years and tests his theory to the limit. Lavishly illustrated and superbly told, Darwin and the Barnacle is the fascinating story of how genius sometimes proceeds through indirection - and how one small item of curiosity contributed to history’s most spectacular scientific breakthrough.

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