Twenty-one years passed between Charles Darwin'sepiphany that "natural selection" formed the basis of evolution and the scientist's publication of On the Origin of Species. Why did Darwin
A fresh look at Darwin's most radical idea, and the mysteriously slow process by which he revealed it.Evolution, during the early nineteenth century, was an idea in the air. Other thinkers had sugges
Traces the twenty-one-year period between Charles Darwin's original idea about natural selection and the publication of "On the Origin of Species," in an account that offers insight into his experienc
