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This edition, published one hundred years after Darwin’s death and edited by his granddaughter, restores all of the passages expunged from the original 1887 edition. It can be read online at Darwin Online, or purchased in print on Amazon.

In this Pulitzer-prize winning book, science-writer Jonathan Weiner follows evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant who have studied more than 20 generations of finches and the continuing evolution of their beaks in the Galapagos Islands.

How did an amiable, provincial English gentleman grow into a thinker capable of challenging the most basic principles of religion and science? Voyaging follows Darwin’s adventures and discoveries as he pieces together the evidence for an idea that would fall upon the world like a thunderclap.

In 1858, Darwin was living quietly in the English countryside, not yet a focus of debate. His "big book on species" still lay on his desk as a manuscript. It is at this point Vol. 2 of Brown’s magisterial biography opens, and does dramatic justice to all aspects of the Darwinian revolution.

“If Charles Darwin walked into a 21st-century bookstore and wanted to know how his theory had fared, this is the book he should pick up... As Darwin famously noted, there is grandeur in this view of life. What Dawkins demonstrates is that this view of life isn't just grand: it's also undeniably true.” - Publisher’s Weekly

This biography begins after the Beagle landed on English shores, and focuses on the conundrum that presented itself to the famed scientist: when to reveal his discovery?

Research biologist Jared Diamond argues that human beings are a species of chimpanzee, albeit with a unique capacity for innovation. He writes about human tendencies for war and environmental destruction, as well as human sexuality, language, art, and agriculture.

Paleontologist and anatomy professor Neil Shubin examines fossils and DNA to shows how our hands resemble fish fins, our heads are organized like long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genomes look and function like those of worms and bacteria.