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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Jim Endersby
In the early twentieth century, varied audiences took biology out of the hands of specialists and transformed it into mass culture, transforming our understanding of heredity in the process.
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Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved, Darwin concluded The Origin of Species, and for confirmation we look to … the guinea pig? How…
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Featuring many stunning illustrations from the Kew archives, Orchid: A Cultural History tells, for the first time, the extraordinary story of orchids and our prolific interest in them.
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Includes stories that reveal how DNA determines the characteristics of the adult organism.
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Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) was an internationally renowned botanist, a close friend and early supporter of Charles Darwin, and one of the first - and most successful - British men…
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Charles Darwin
Jim Endersby’s major scholarly edition debunks some of the myths that surround Darwin’s book, and expores how it was originally written, published and read. Endersby provides a very readable introduction…
