Jonathan Keates

Darwin — from worms to collops

By all accounts a modest and retiring example of his species, Charles Darwin would surely have been more astonished than flattered by the honours done him during this year’s bicentennial celebrations.

  • Darwin’s Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England

    Steve Jones

    Little, Brown, pp. 307

  • The Young Charles Darwin

    Keith Thomson

    Yale, pp. 276

  • Mrs Charles Darwin’s Recipe Book

    Dusha Bateson and Wesley Janeway

    Glitterati Incorporated, pp. 175

  • Remarkable Creatures

    Sean Carroll

    Quercus, pp. 331

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