Darwin and the Barnacle : The Story of One Tiny Creature and History's Most Spectacular Scientific Breakthrough
by Stott, Rebecca
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0571209661
- ISBN 13
- 9780571209668
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber. Very Good/Very Good. 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0571209661 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Grey boards with bright white titling on spine. Slight bump. No ownership marks. Illustrations / photographs. 309 pages clean and tight. In 1846 Darwin had a secret: an essay sealed in an envelope and locked in his study drawer which would overturn human understanding of time and nature forever. Before he published, he had just one more riddle to solve, that of the strange anatomy of a barnacle, nick-named Mr Arthrobalanus, found in South America during the voyage of the Beagle. Abberant creatures like these are the key to the processes of natural selection, but eight years later, with a study filled with hundreds of barnacle specimens, the case is still unclosed. Was Darwin hesitating? Or was he testing his "dangerous idea" to destruction? "Darwin and the Barnacle" is the story of how genius sometimes proceeds through indirection - and how one small creature contributed to history's most spectacular scientific breakthrough. .
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- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 137153
- Title
- Darwin and the Barnacle : The Story of One Tiny Creature and History's Most Spectacular Scientific Breakthrough
- Author
- Stott, Rebecca
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0571209661
- ISBN 13
- 9780571209668
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2003
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