The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution Bashford Alison
A New Yorker and Economist Best Book of the YearTwo hundred years of modern science and culture told through one family history.This momentous biography tells the story of the Huxleys: the Victorian…
Specifikacia The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution Bashford Alison
A New Yorker and Economist Best Book of the YearTwo hundred years of modern science and culture told through one family history.This momentous biography tells the story of the Huxleys: the Victorian natural historian T. H. Huxley ("Darwin's Bulldog") and his grandson, the scientist, conservationist, and zoologist Julian Huxley. Between them, they communicated to the world the great modern story of the theory of evolution by natural selection. In The Huxleys, celebrated historian Alison Bashford writes seamlessly about these omnivorous intellects together, almost as if they were a single man whose long, vital life bookended the colossal shifts in world history from the age of sail to the Space Age, and from colonial wars to world wars to the cold war.The Huxleys' specialty was evolution in all its forms--at the grandest level of