{"product_id":"the-portable-darwin-9780140151091","title":"The Portable Darwin","description":"\"Deserves to be as widely read as were the originals when they were first published.\"--\u003ci\u003eBiological Journal of the Linneas Society\u003c\/i\u003e. Includes five chapters from \u003ci\u003eThe Origin of Speices\u003c\/i\u003e, complete and unabridged; significant extracts from the works that precede and develop the theory of evolution: \u003ci\u003eThe Voyage of the Beagle, The Descent of Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Variations of Animals and Plants; \u003c\/i\u003escientific papers, travel writings, letters, and a family memorial; plus a chronology and biography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Robert Darwin\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1809 in Shrewsbury, England, to a wealthy intellectual family, his grandfather being the famous physician Erasmus Darwin. At Cambridge University he formed a friendship with J. S. Henslow, a professor of botany, and that association, along with his enthusiasm for collecting beetles, led to \"a burning zeal,\" as he wrote in his \u003ci\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/i\u003e, for the natural sciences. When Henslow obtained for him the post of naturalist on H.M.S. \u003ci\u003eBeagle\u003c\/i\u003e, the course of his life was fixed. The five-year-long voyage to the Southern Hemisphere between 1831 and 1836 would lay the foundation for his ideas about evolution and natural selection. Upon his return Darwin lived in London before retiring to his residence at Down, a secluded village in Kent. For the next forty years he conducted his research there and wrote the works that would change human understanding forever. Knowing of the resistance from the orthodox scientific and religious communities, Darwin published \u003ci\u003eThe Origin of Species\u003c\/i\u003e in 1859 only when another naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace, independently reached the same conclusions. His other works include \u003ci\u003eThe Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex\u003c\/i\u003e (1871) and \u003ci\u003eRecollections of My Mind and Character\u003c\/i\u003e, also titled \u003ci\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/i\u003e (1887). Charles Darwin's \u003ci\u003eDiary of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle\u003c\/i\u003e was published posthumously in 1933. Darwin died in 1882; he is buried in Westminster Abbey. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDuncan M. Porter\u003c\/b\u003e received his BA and MA from Stanford and his PhD from Harvard in biological sciences. He has worked for the University of San Francisco, Washington University, and Virginia Tech, as well as the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Smithsonian Institution. He is professor emeritus of biological sciences at Virginia Tech. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Graham \u003c\/b\u003ereceived his PhD from Duke University. He was given the Clifford Cutchins Professorship from 2000 to 2005 and was a Jane Austen Society of North America Traveling Scholar from 2009 to 2010. His books include \u003ci\u003eDarwin's Sciences\u003c\/i\u003e with Duncan M. Porter, \u003ci\u003eDon Juan and Regency England\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eJane Austen \u0026amp; Charles Darwin: Naturalists and Novelists\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51384137056530,"sku":"9780140151091","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a9d6df68-de1a-4504-841f-e6649aab63fe.jpg?v=1750164333","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-portable-darwin-9780140151091","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}