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Darwin’s Evolving Identity: Adventure, Ambition, and the Sin of Speculation, by Alistair Sponsel

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12 Jun 2019
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Alistair Sponsel, Darwin’s Evolving Identity: Adventure, Ambition, and the Sin of Speculation, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018, 336 pp., 50$, ISBN: 9780226523255

Charles Darwin’s caution is well known. “After five years’ work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject,” he wrote in the opening pages of the Origin of Species. In more ways than one, Darwin sought to reassure his readers that he had “not been hasty in coming to a decision.” In Darwin’s Evolving Identity, Alistair Sponsel introduces us to a younger and bolder Darwin, far more willing
Title:
Darwin’s Evolving Identity: Adventure, Ambition, and the Sin of Speculation, by Alistair Sponsel
Article Type:
Book Review
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-03402018
Language:
English
Pages:
472–474
In:
Nuncius
In:
Volume 34: Issue 2
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
1825-3911
Print ISSN:
0394-7394
Subjects:
History of Science, History, Art History, Art History

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