| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 146 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 22 cm x 28 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 144) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Before Darwin -- Taxonomy -- 2. A comfortable youth -- Be a backyard naturalist -- Acquired characteristics -- Making shrewsbury cakes -- A classified education -- 3. To distant lands -- Botanical treasure hunt -- Tying the knot -- South American Comida -- Voyage journal -- 4. The search for reasons -- Make your own fossils -- Traveling plants -- 5. A turning point in human understanding -- Going ape -- Count the generations -- 6. The idea that changed the world -- Make your own geological strata -- Camouflage egg hunt -- The benefits of beauty -- 7. Reluctant celebrity -- Carnivorous plants -- Seed strategies -- Emotions left and right -- 8. After Darwin -- The great "monkey trial" debate -- Future evolution. |
| Summary |
A biography of the English naturalist who, after collecting plants and animals from around the world, postulated the theory of evolution by natural selection. Includes related activities. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 8.4 10.0 104711. |
| Subject |
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Juvenile literature.
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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
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Naturalists -- England -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Evolution (Biology) -- Study and teaching -- Activity programs.
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Naturalists.
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Scientists.
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Evolution (Biology)
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| ISBN |
1556525028 |
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