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This editionpublished one hundred years after Darwin’s death and edited by his granddaughterrestores all of the passages expunged from the original 1887 edition. It can be read online at Darwin Onlineor purchased in print on Amazon.

In this Pulitzer-prize winning bookscience-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 amiableprovincial 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 1858Darwin was living quietly in the English countrysidenot 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 opensand 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 faredthis is the book he should pick up... As Darwin famously notedthere 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 shoresand 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 chimpanzeealbeit with a unique capacity for innovation. He writes about human tendencies for war and environmental destructionas well as human sexualitylanguageartand agriculture.

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