Rebecca Stott, Darwin’s Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution
A nice book. I have enjoyed listening to it. Below there are scientists, considered in detail in the book.
An excerpt: http://www.randomhouse.com/book/204510/darwins-ghosts-by-rebecca-stott#excerpt
Chapter 2: Aristotle Eyes – Lesbos, 344 BC
- The History of Animals, Parts of Animals
Chapter 3: The Worshipful Curiosity of Jahiz – Basra and Baghdad, 850
- Jahiz: Book of Living Beings
Chapter 4: Leonardo and the Potter – Milan 1493; Paris, 1570
- A Huguenot potter Bernard Palissy
Chapter 5: Trembley’s Polyp – The Hague, 1740
- Abraham Trembley
Chapter 6: The Consul of Cairo – Cairo, 1708
- Benoit de Maillet: Telliamed, On the origin of Species
Chapter 7: The Hotel of the Philosophers – Paris, 1749
- Denis Diderot: D’Alembert’s Dream, Letter on the Blind, Thoughts on the Interpretation of Nature
Chapter 8: Erasmus Underground – Derbyshire, 1767
- Erasmus Darwin: The Loves of the Plants, of Observations of the Zoonomia, The Temple of Nature, Zoonomia or the Laws of Organic Life
Chapter 9: The Jardin des Plantes – Paris, 1800
- Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
- Georges Cuvier
- Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Chapter 10: The Sponge Philosopher – Edinburgh, 1826
- Robert Edmond Grant
Chapter 11: The Encyclopedist – Edinburgh, 1844
- Robert Chambers – Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Chapter 12: Alfred Wallace’s Fevered Dreams – Malay Archipelago, 1858