Reading the Rocks

Autori

• Brenda Maddox

Parametri

• Natura
• Natura, animali
• Saggistica
• Scienza
• Storia

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Reading the Rocks, the latest book by the frighteningly prolific biographer Brenda Maddox, relates how a handful of British men - and one woman - blasted out the intellectual cutting through which the theory of natural selection would follow . Maddox, whose previous biographical scalps include George Eliot, DH Lawrence and Rosalind Franklin, has a fine eye for idiosyncrasy, the primacy of money and the sheer squawking rivalrousness of the academic world' Oliver Moody The Times

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Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2017

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