The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter, Volume 1

Charles Darwin

AMS Press, 1972 - Biography & Autobiography - 562 pages

Contents

• CHAPTER: 1
• REMINISCENCES: 87
• THE STUDY AT DOWN FROM THE CENTURY MAGAZINE: 100

About the author

Charles Robert Darwin, born in 1809, was an English naturalist who founded the theory of Darwinism, the belief in evolution as determined by natural selection. Although Darwin studied medicine at Edinburgh University, and then studied at Cambridge University to become a minister, he had been interested in natural history all his life. His grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, was a noted English poet, physician, and botanist who was interested in evolutionary development. Darwin's works have had an incalculable effect on all aspects of the modern thought. Darwin's most famous and influential work, On the Origin of Species, provoked immediate controversy. Darwin's other books include Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. Charles Darwin died in 1882.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter, Volume 1; Volume 1 of The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Sir Francis Darwin; The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter, Charles Darwin; Volumes 17-18 of The Works of Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin
• Author: Charles Darwin
• Editor: Sir Francis Darwin
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: AMS Press, 1972
• ISBN: 0404084176, 9780404084172
• Length: 562 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology