A Reason for Everything: Natural Selection and the English Imagination

Marek Kohn

Faber & Faber, 2005 - Evolution (Biology) - 392 pages

A Reason for Everything is a brilliant and surprising fusion of science and biography. It is a very human book about the Britishness of evolutionary theory and the lives and personalities - often eccentric and controversial - of those who made it. Wonderful reviews confirmed this as a brilliant work of popular science and biography One of the most accessible and delightful books on the lives of scientists you will ever read Beautiful repackaging for the paperback will make this much more appealing and charming Destined to become a backlist classic for all popular science sections

About the author

Marek Kohn lives in Brighton with his wife and child. He is the author of Dope Girls, a book about the birth of the drug scare in Britain after the First World War, and of two other books about science. The Race Gallery was described by the Guardian as 'an elegant, timely and devastating critique of racism in science'. Isabel Fonseca said of him that 'he is that valuable thing, a cultural commentator with a scientific background'. Find out more at Marek Kohn's website: www.marekkohn.tk

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Reason for Everything: Natural Selection and the English Imagination
• Author: Marek Kohn
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2005
• ISBN: 0571223931, 9780571223930
• Length: 392 pages