Adrian J. Desmond
Contributor
Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Biology, University College London. Author of Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest and co-author of Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist.
Primary Contributions (2)
Charles Darwin was an English naturalist whose scientific theory of evolution by natural selection became the foundation of modern evolutionary studies. An affable country gentleman, Darwin at first shocked religious Victorian society by suggesting that animals and humans shared a common ancestry.β¦
READ MORE
Publications (1)
Darwin (1994)
"It is like confessing a murder." These are the words Charles Darwin uttered when he revealed to the world what he knew to be true: that humans are descended from headless hermaphrodite squids. How could a wealthy gentleman, a stickler for respectability, attack the foundations of his religion and Anglican society? Authors Adrian Desmond and James Moore, in what has been hailed as the definitive biography of Charles Darwin, not only explain the paradox of the man but bring us the full sweep of Victorian...
READ MORE