Full name: Darwin and the Barnacle: The Story of One Tiny Creature and History's Most Spectacular Scientific Breakthrough

Author: Rebecca Stott Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393325713 0393325717

A scientific detective story that illuminates the remarkable saga of Darwin's greatest achievement. Pairing Charles Darwin and a rare species of barnacle as her unlikely protagonists, Rebecca Stott has written an absorbing work of history that guides readers through the treacherous shoals of nineteenth-century biology. Beginning her scientific detective story in the 1820s, even before Darwin's Beagle voyage, Stott examines the mystery of why Darwin waited over two decades between formulating his pivotal theory of natural selection and publishing it. Lavishly illustrated, filled with riddles and concepts that challenge our notion of Victorian science, Darwin and the Barnacle is a thrilling account of how genius proceeds through indirection--and how one small item of curiosity contributed to history's most spectacular scientific breakthrough. Similar books: Darwin and the Beagle by Alan Moorehead Darwin's Ghosts by Rebecca Stott Darwin's Armada by Iain McCalman Darwin's Origin of Species by Janet Browne Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution by Randal Keynes Darwin's Island by Steve Jones Darwin's Sacred Cause by Adrian Desmond Darwin for Beginners by Jonathan Miller Ever Since Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould The Darwin Wars by Andrew Brown Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms by Richard Fortey Life by Richard Fortey Darwin's Ghost by Steve Jones The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin The Panda's Thumb by Stephen Jay Gould The Code Book by Simon Singh The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert