A Natural Selection

摘要

Charles Darwin is known to the world for one book. "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life", to give it its full, long-winded Victorian title, was published a century-and-a-half ago this year. In truth Darwin was a prolific author. Like a 19th-century David Attenborough, he churned out volume after bestselling volume on earthworms, coral reefs, emotion, orchids, barnacles, insectivorous plants and, of course, human origins.