'An astonishingly fresh picture of the great naturalist-Janet Browne's book is a triumph, the closest we can come to getting inside Darwin's mind.' Sunday Telegraph
Janet Browne is a zoologist and historian of science. She was formerly a Professor in the History of Biology at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College, London. She is currently the Aramont Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.
Brilliantly penetrating...utterly riveting
*Daily Telegraph*
Browne knows how to spellbind the reader... The definitive Darwin
biography
*New York Newsday*
An authoritative and highly readable biography which uncovers the
complex process of scientific discovery
*Independent*
It is wonderful and marvellous, even magisterial
*New York Review of Books*
Splendid. Her qualifications as a trained biologist, historian of
science and skilled editor of the correspondence out her in an
ideal position... A wonderful read
*Nature*
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