Charles Darwin: Victorian mythmaker, by A. N. Wilson, John Murray A. N. Wilson is a prolific author who has written more than 45 books, including many biographies of subjects ranging from Queen ...

Dozens of biographies have been written about Charles Darwin, one of the most influential thinkers in history. Now, for the first time, his life is portrayed pictorially in an illustrated biography in ...

Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” was published in 1859 and is considered the basis of evolutionary biology. (Oli Scarff/GETTY IMAGES) Jerry A. Coyne is professor emeritus in the department ...

On the surface of it, Charles Darwin’s life offers little to hold the average reader through an 800-page summary of its major and minor details. Following one spectacular voyage around the world when ...

Acclaimed narrative historian Diana Preston (“Eight Days at Yalta”; “Lusitania”; “Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima”), a first cousin of Charles Darwin’s wife Emma “many generations ...

Eugene Byrne, illus. by Simon Gurr. Smithsonian Books (Random, dist.), $9.95 trade paper (100p) ISBN 978-1-58834-352-9 Early in this bio, a college-age Darwin is out collecting beetles when he spies a ...