by Julian Huxley, H. D. B. Kettlewel · Salvat · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788434581500
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«Darwin» is the biography of Charles Darwin by Julian Huxley and H. D. B. Kettlewel, published by Salvat in paperback, with 205 pages in Spanish.
Biography of the naturalist Charles Darwin that reviews his life and work: the Beagle expedition, the formulation of his theory of evolution, and the mark his ideas left on science and on nineteenth-century thought. The edition includes black-and-white photographs.
Belongs to the Biblioteca Salvat de Grandes Biografías collection, number 5. Includes a prologue by Faustino Cordón and a translation from English by Jesús Fernández Zulaica.
A work for readers interested in biographies of scientists and in the history of evolutionary thought.
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth-century modern synthesis. He was secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1935–1942), the first director of UNESCO, a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund, the president of the British Eugenics Society (1959–1962), and the first president of the British Humanist Association.
