Origin Story
the trials of charles darwin
$45.10
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
25 July 2025
Summary
Darwin’s Dilemma: Science, Sickness, and the Seeds of Revolution
By early morning of June 30, 1860, a large crowd began to congregate in front of Oxford University’s brand-new Museum of Natural History. The occasion was the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and the subject of discussion was Charles Darwin’s new treatise: fact or fiction?
Darwin, a simultaneously reclusive and intellectually audacious squire from Kent, claimed to have s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781324110347 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1324110341 |
| Author: | Howard Markel |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 25 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 291g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 137mm x 23mm |
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”[Origin Story] offers something welcome and new.” – The Economist“Insightful… Origin Story brings something new to the literary selection.” – The Economist“Markel, a medical historian, delivers a fresh take on a seminal event in the history of science—the publication of ‘On the Origin of Species’—along with lively portraits of the allies and adversaries who debated Darwin’s scandalous theory, and, not least, of the naturalist himself, plagued by debilitating illness and, hot on his heels, an equally brilliant competitor.” – The New York Times Book Review
About The Author
Howard Markel
Howard Markel, MD, PhD, has practiced pediatrics and taught medical history at Johns Hopkins and University of Michigan. An award-winning author of The Secret of Life, National Academy of Medicine member, and Guggenheim fellow, he lives in New York.
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