Darwin's Universe: Evolution from A to Z
by Richard Milner
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Author: Richard MilnerPreface: Ian Tattersall
Foreword: Stephen Jay Gould
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-07-06
ISBN: 0520243765
Number of pages: 496
Publisher: University of California Press
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Book Review: Darwin's Universe
Summary: 5 Stars
ENTER MILNER'S DELIGHTFUL "UNIVERSE"
Richard Milner is a maestro in "Darwin's Universe," conducting the greatest symphony of evolutionary ideas, fascinating natural history, and bizarre and brilliant characters that has ever been gathered in one beautiful volume. He is the PT Barnum of the evolutionary circus, offering the fruits of his unparalleled research into the theories and people who created evolutionary biology and the history of humanity's quest for its origins. Even the expert will find here previously unknown stories about Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Alfred Russel Wallace, and many others.
"Darwin's Universe" may at first appear to be a coffee table book, with its large format and hundreds of varied, rare, and unusual illustrations, but it is so much more. It is an entertaining masterpiece mixing arcane and elementary knowledge, the profound and the hilarious. I find myself dipping into it every day and being delighted with the bite-size essays that hook the reader for a quickie, and then draw you in for hours of fun reading.
You can ponder the existence of Group Selection, find surprising essays on Science itself and Peer Review, learn about the most recent discoveries of fossil man (Flores, Dmanisi, Atapuerca, Toumai), or explore some of the ways that evolutionary theory has influenced pop culture (Disney's epic of battling dinosaurs; Gertie the brontosaur, the first animal cartoon star; King Kong,; and Jurassic Park--with the backstories of how they were created).
You'll meet Flint Jack, the nineteenth century's greatest faker of prehistoric tools, attend a dinner of famous scientists inside a giant iguanodon, and reflect on a thoughtful introductory essay by the late Stephan Jay Gould, the author's classmate and childhood friend.
Just open the book. You will be immediately transported to a fabulous wonderland of evolutionary adventure. All my friends who have seen it want copies.
Summary of Darwin's Universe: Evolution from A to Z
This alphabetically arranged reference, an immensely entertaining browser's delight, offers a dazzling overview of the life and thought of Charles Darwin and his incredibly wide sphere of influence. Authoritative and abundantly illustrated, it illuminates the ways in which ideas of evolutionary biology have leapt the boundaries of science to influence philosophy, law, religion, literature, cinema, art, and popular culture. Darwin's Universe, a thoroughly revised and updated successor to Richard Milner's acclaimed Encyclopedia of Evolution, contains more than a hundred new essays, including entries on animal behavior (Alex the parrot, Kanzi the bonobo, Digit the gorilla), on women in science (Mary Anning, Rosalind Franklin), and on the latest finds of human fossils. A veritable museum of natural history, it also contains many original discoveries brought to light by Milner's historical sleuthing. Packed with hundreds of rare illustrations, including many new ones, this Darwin Bicentennial edition will appeal to a wide audience of readers.History Books
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