How to Read Darwin [Paperback]

Charles Darwins permanent legacy is his broad, abstract theories of evolution and natural selection, theories that he tested against an astonishing array of natural history evidence in his writing. Mark Ridley uses a question-and-answer approach to explain how Darwin carefully tackled problems, and shows here how the reader can understand Darwins arguments by first working out which question Darwin had implicitly set himself to answer.Intent on letting the reader experience the pleasure and intellectual stimulation in reading classic authors, the