Adrian Desmond is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Biology Department at University College London. He has written numerous books on evolution and Victorian science. James Moore is a reader in history of science and technology at the Open University.
"A book that makes such an astounding physical as well as cerebral impact is a very rare commodity indeed." -- Anthony Burgess - Observer "A riveting tour de force that meets the need for a new biography on the grand scale... Rarely have the dynamic relations between a scientist's life and his theories been so fully, so forcefully recounted." -- Roy Porter - Sunday Times "Pick is up and you are hooked, by the racy writing, the memorable turns of phrase, the historical insights and the sheer bravado of their performance." -- William Bynum - New Scientist "Unquestionably the finest [biography] ever written about Darwin... Darwin has now become, and properly, the quintessentially socially embedded scientist. Desmond and Moore are brilliant in their pursuit of this truly unifying theme." -- Stephen Jay Gould "At last, a biography to match the man... Darwin, his family, his colleagues, and his milieu come alive in this book... Superbly written." -- Everett Menselson, Harvard University
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