Readership: General readers interested in Darwin and evolution; students of evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology.
Jonathan Howard, Professor of Cell Genetics, Institute of Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany
"Jonathan Howard has produced an intellectual tour de force, a classic in the genre of popular scientific exposition which will still be read in fifty years' time." - Times Literary Supplement
List of Illustrations 1: Darwin's life 2: The foundations of Darwinism 3: Natural selection and the origin of species 4: The evidence for evolution by natural selection 5: Sex, variation, and heredity 6: Man 7: Perfection and progress 8: Darwinism and ideology 9: Darwin as a scientist: an evaluation Further Reading Index