FROM DODO TO DARWIN

摘要

David Quammen is a traveler and science writer, perhaps best known for his account of the development of biogeography, The Song of the Dodo (Scribner, 1996). In his new book, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution, Quammen tells the story, at a popular level, of how Darwin conceived, substantiated, and eventually promoted his theory of evolution by natural selection. He certainly seems to have hit the nail on the head—the book has already received a rave review in Science from Janet Browne, author of the best modern scholarly biography of Darwin in the literature.