Darwins Ghosts : In Search Of The First Evolutionists

Rebecca Stott

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Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected criticism. Letters were arriving every day like swarms, some expressing praise, most outrage and accusations of heresy. But the letter from the Reverend Powell was different. It accused Darwin of failing to acknowledge his predecessors, of having taken credit for a theory that had already been discovered by others, Baden Powell himself and Darwin's own grandfather among them. For all the excuses that leapt to mind - publication had been rushed; he hadn't been well - Darwin knew he had made a grave error in omitting to mention his intellectual forebears. Yet when he tried to trace these natural philosophers, he found that history had already forgotten them... In Darwin's Ghosts, historian and novelist Rebecca Stott rediscovers Aristotle walking the shores of Lesbos with his pupils and Leonardo da Vinci searching for fossils in the mine shafts of the Tuscan hills; Diderot, in Paris, under the surveillance of the secret police, exploring the origins of species, and the brilliant naturalists of the Jardin de Plantes first recognising proof of evolutionary change in the natural history collections stolen during the Napoleonic wars. Darwin's Ghosts is a masterful retelling of the collective daring of a few like-minded men who had the imagination to speculate on nature's ways and the courage to publish at a time when to do so, for political as well as religious reasons, was to risk everything. More than a tale of mummified birds, inland lagoons, Bedouin nomads, secret police files, microscopes and curiosity cabinets, Darwin's Ghosts is the story of an idea that would change the modern world.

Rebecca Stott

Rebecca Stott (born 1964) is a British writer, currently professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of two historical novels, Ghostwalk (2007) and The Coral Thief (2009), a biography of Charles Darwin called Darwin and the Barnacle (2003) and 2,200-year history of Darwin's predecessors called Darwin's Ghosts. Her most recent book, a memoir called In The Days of Rain: A Daughter, A Father, A Cult (2017) an account of her childhood growing up in the Exclusive Brethren, a highly secretive and separatist Christian fundamentalist cult, won the 2017 Costa Book Award in the Biography category.[1] She is a regular broadcaster on the Radio Four programme A Point of View and has just finished a novel set in the sixth century. She has three grown-up children, Jacob, Kezia and the actress Hannah Morrish. She lives in Norwich in an old herbarium and library.