Charles Darwin, 1809--1882

23 Oct 1997 12:52

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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]