The Reluctant Mr. Darwin

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The Reluctant Mr. Darwin is written by David Quammen and published by W. W. Norton & Company. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0393076342 (ISBN 10) and 9780393076349 (ISBN 13).

"Quammen brilliantly and powerfully re-creates the 19th century naturalist's intellectual and spiritual journey."--Los Angeles Times Book Review Twenty-one years passed between Charles Darwin's epiphany that "natural selection" formed the basis of evolution and the scientist's publication of On the Origin of Species. Why did Darwin delay, and what happened during the course of those two decades? The human drama and scientific basis of these years constitute a fascinating, tangled tale that elucidates the character of a cautious naturalist who initiated an intellectual revolution.