Название: Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
Автор: James T. Costa
Издательство: W. W. Norton & Company
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 30 Мб
Язык: английский / English
James T. Costa takes readers on a journey from Darwin’s childhood through his voyage on the HMS Beagle where his ideas on evolution began. We then follow Darwin to Down House, his bustling home of forty years, where he kept porcupine quills at his desk to dissect barnacles, maintained a flock of sixteen pigeon breeds in the dovecote, and cultivated climbing plants in the study, and to Bournemouth, where on one memorable family vacation he fed carnivorous plants in the soup dishes.
Автор: James T. Costa
Издательство: W. W. Norton & Company
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 30 Мб
Язык: английский / English
James T. Costa takes readers on a journey from Darwin’s childhood through his voyage on the HMS Beagle where his ideas on evolution began. We then follow Darwin to Down House, his bustling home of forty years, where he kept porcupine quills at his desk to dissect barnacles, maintained a flock of sixteen pigeon breeds in the dovecote, and cultivated climbing plants in the study, and to Bournemouth, where on one memorable family vacation he fed carnivorous plants in the soup dishes.