Adventure, Ambition, and the Sin of Speculation
by
Alistair Sponsel
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Why—against his mentor’s exhortations to publish—did Charles Darwin take twenty years to reveal his theory of evolution by natural selection? In Darwin’s Evolving Identity, Alistair Sponsel argues that Darwin adopted this cautious approach to atone for his provocative theorizing as a young...