Darwin And His Flowers: The Key To Natural Selection by Mea Allan

"In Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, which burst like a bomb on Victorian Britain, he asked: Was the world really created in six days - or did it take millions of years?'. He suggested that organic beings had in that time gone through a struggle for existence - and survived, or failed to adapt and become extinct. What has never been pointed out about Darwin and the Origin, the most important biological book every written, is that it was through his studies of flowers that he put his Natural Selection Theory to the test.... From Darwin's own accounts of his work with plants (he wrote seven major books about them); from the mass of unpublished letters exchanged with such giants of science and close personal Sir Joseph Hooker, Sir Charles Lyell, and Asa Gray in America. Mea Allan gives us a... human picture of the man who 'could not tell a daisy from a dandelion' but who ended up by teaching the botanists... "--Book jacket.

Publisher:	Faber & Faber
Year:	1977
Binding:	Hardback
ISBN:	9780571107834
Condition:	Good
Description:	DJ; Heavy.

This image is of the actual book.

SKU: 1600660
Location: Science