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Evolution's Workshop

by Edward J. Larson
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780465038114
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Basic Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 336
  • Original Price: USD 21.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Reprint
  • Item Weight: 477 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Life Sciences / Evolution

More than any other place on Earth, the Galapagos Islands are the workshop of evolution. Isolated and desolate, they were largely overlooked by early explorers until Charles Darwin arrived there in the 1830's. It was Darwin who recognized that Galapagos' isolation and desolation were advantages: the paucity of species and lack of outside influences made the workings of natural selection crystal clear. Since then, every important advance and controversy in evolutionary thinking has had its reflection on the Galapagos. In every sense-intellectually, institutionally, and culturally-the history of science on these islands is a history of the way evolutionary science was done for the past 150 years. Evolution's Workshop tells the story of Darwin's explorations there; the fabulous Gilded Age expeditions, run from rich men's gigantic yachts, that featured rough-and-ready science during the day and black-tie dinners every night; the struggle for control of research on the Galapagos; the current efforts by "creation scientists" to use the Galapagos to undercut evolutionary teaching; and many other compelling stories.

Edward J. Larson is the author of sixteen books, including Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership and American Inheritance. He received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in History for Summer for the Gods. He is the University Professor of History and holds the Darling Chair in Law at Pepperdine University.

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