James A. Secord is the author of many books including Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute (Princeton, 1986) and Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' (Chicago, 2000), winner of the 2002 Pfizer Prize of the History of Science Society and the 2002 award for the best book in history from the Association of American Publishers' Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division. He has edited Lyell's Principles of Geology for Penguin.
This fantastic anthology paints an enthralling and complex portrait
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*Amanda Gefter, New Scientist*
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motivations of a remarkable scientist.
*The Quarterly Review of Biology*
It's a tight well laid-out introduction to Darwinism that will
encourage you to go looking for more.
*Paul O'Doherty, Irish Times*
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