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Charles Darwin, almost uniquely among great scientists, wrote for the general public. In A Darwin Selection, Mark Ridley has chosen key passages from Darwin's most important books, filling in their context and drawing on the latest Darwin scholarship. In this work, Darwin emerges as an experimentalist, unveiling the lives of the plants; as a travel writer; and as a natural philsopher. His theory of natural selection is clearly and beautifully exposed. 'Ridley's selection of Darwiniana - as befits his reputation as one of the most widely read of all evolutionary biologists - is a first-rate one' Steve Jones
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Scientists around the world across disciplines ranging from economics via psychology to computing are still grappling with the implications of Darwin's revolutionary ideas about the evolution of life. Those ideas are scattered across the many large volumes of his writings (Darwin was a typically prolific Victorian), but the most telling, most pivotal of them have been chosen and gathered in this book, and they are put into context and explained by one of the leading disciples of Darwin of our own day, Mark Ridley. Mark Ridley also wrote "Evolution" and "Problems of Evolution".
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