Darwin's Backyard

How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory

James T. Costa

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Norton
12 October 2018

Mathematics & Sciences; Biology, life sciences

Darwin's Backyard goes beyond the portrait of Charles Darwin as a brilliant thinker to concentrate on him as a nimble experimenter delving into some of evolution's great mysteries.

Darwin's Backyard reveals the humble experimentising that the brilliant thinker and scientist Charles Darwin harnessed to delve into the mysteries of evolution. Using his garden, greenhouse, neighboring woodlands, and even the halls and rooms of his home-turned-field-station, Darwin tested out ideas of his theory of evolution with an astonishing array of hands-on experiments, many with the help of his family, friends, and correspondents. James T. Costa, an experimentiser himself, provides in one outstanding aspect of the book (Science News) directions for eighteen experiments to do in your home, school, yard, or garden. 60 line drawings

By: James T. Costa
Imprint: Norton
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 142mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 370g
ISBN: 9780393356304
ISBN 10: 0393356302
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 12 October 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory

With Darwin's Backyard, Costa has written an intimate and big-hearted book. In its pages, young readers will discover the complicated man behind the revolutionary theory. -- Science Magazine ...excellent Darwin's Backyard... James Costa has written an intimate and big-hearted book. In its pages, readers will discover the real Darwin, a complicated man behind a revolutionary theory. -- Science Lives It is a charming book about Darwin's homespun experiments... -- Times Literary Supplement Darwin's Backyard, is a passionate but balanced celebration of the Victorian scientist's lifelong obsession with enquiry and how the fields and meadows around his home were a microcosm of the wider world... Costa more than achieves his stated goals of revealing the evolution of Darwin's insights and the relevance of his methods now. -- Nature If you've ever fantasized walking and conversing with the great scientist on the subjects that consumed him, and now wish to add the fullness of reality, read this book. -- Edward O. Wilson