Adrian Desmond, Author Basic Books $37.5 (848p) ISBN 978-0-201-95987-1
Desmond (coauthor with James Moore of Darwin) has produced a dramatic if densely detailed and sometimes self-consciously literary life of Thomas Huxley, the contentious missionary of evolution, known in his day as Darwin's bulldog--""one of the...
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Adrian Desmond, Author, James Moore, With Warner Books $35 (0p) ISBN 978-0-446-51589-4
Invaluable for its day-to-day account of Charles Darwin's activities, this monumental biography keenly conveys the English naturalist's struggle to make evolution and natural selection acceptable by presenting them as the bedrock of Victorian middle-
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Adrian Desmond, Author, James Moore, Author . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $30 (485p) ISBN 978-0-547-05526-8
Who better than Desmond and Moore, Darwin's acclaimed biographers, to bring a fresh perspective to Darwin's central beliefs? “No one,” they say, “has appreciated the source of that moral fire that fuelled his strange, out-
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