The Reluctant Mr. Darwin
by David Quammen |
Charles Darwin: A Biography: Volume 2, The Power of Place
by Janet Browne |
Charles Darwin: A Biography, Volume 1: Voyaging
by Janet Browne |
Darwin's Origin of Species
by Janet Browne |
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
by Charles Darwin | 
Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist
by Adrian Desmond | 
Evolution's Captain
by Peter Nichols |
Darwin and the Barnacle
by Rebecca Stott |
The Tree of Life
by Peter Sis |
The Man Who Knew Too Much
by Stephen Inwood | 
Darwin's Island
by Steve Jones | 
Darwin and the Beagle
by Alan Moorehead | 
Wizard
by Marc J. Seifer | 
The Curious Life of Robert Hooke
by Lisa Jardine | 
Newton
by Peter Ackroyd | 
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot | 
Galileo's Daughter
by Dava Sobel |
Lost Moon
by Jim Lovell |
Rocket Men
by Robert Kurson | 
Genius
by James Gleick |
In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, author Randal Keynes discovered the writing case of Charles and Emma Darwin's beloved daughter Annie Darwin, who died at the age of ten. He also found the notes Darwin kept throughout Annie's illness, the eulogy he delivered at her funeral--and provocative new insights into Darwin's views on nature, evolution, and the human condition. In Darwin, His Daughter & Human Evolution, Keynes shows that Darwin was not "a cold intellect with no place for love in his famous 'struggle for existence,' [but]...a man of uncommon warmth" (Scientific American).