Charles Darwin, 1809--1882
Last update: 23 Oct 1997 12:52First version:
See also Adaptation, Ecology and Evolution of course
- Recommended:
- Jacques Barzun, Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage [Much more interesting for the history of Darwin's reception and influence than for Barzun's attempts to critique biology]
- Anne Becker, The Transmutation Notebooks: Poems in the Voices of Charles and Emma Darwin [Review]
- E. Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: A Biography, vol.1 Voyaging [Only one published so far. Review: An Adaptive Peak in Darwin Biographies]
- Charles Darwin
- On the Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life [Harvard publishes a very fine fascimile of the first edition, which was the most truly Darwinian one, with a good introduction by Ernst Mayr]
- The Voyage of the Beagle
- Jane Langton, Dead as a Dodo [Review]
- Jonathan Miller and Borin Van Loon, Darwin for Beginners [apparently also published under the title Charles Darwin]
- John S. Wilkins, Darwin's Precursors and Influences [frameless version at the talk.origins site]
- To read:
- Gillian Beer, Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction
- Janet Browne, Charles Darwin, vol. II
- Charles Darwin
- Autobiography
- The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
- The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals [Online]
- Metaphysics, Materialism & the Evolution of Mind [extracts from notebooks]
- The Power of Movement in Plants
- The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids Are Fertilized by Insects
- Ernst Mayr, One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought
- Anton Pannekoek, Marxism and Darwinism [1912; online]
