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Darwin's Garden - Down House and the Origin of Species (Paperback)
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Darwin's Garden - Down House and the Origin of Species (Paperback)
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On the Origin of Species was built upon the young Charles Darwin's
observations of the natural world when he circumnavigated the globe
as a "gentleman naturalist" on the HMS Beagle. But work on his
masterpiece did not begin until five years after his return when he
moved into Down House with his family in Kent, England, where he
would live for the rest of his life. For almost twenty years, the
garden at Down House was both an inspiration and a laboratory to
Darwin. In the orchard, he conducted experiments on pollination. He
built a dovecote where he could breed new strains of pigeons that
helped him understand the intricacies of generation. On his daily
walk along the sandbank, he observed how plants competed for
survival. In solitude, he also struggled with the ideas of
evolution that had haunted him since his voyage. Bringing Darwin's
garden to the present day, Boulter unfolds a shining portrait of
the formation of one of England's greatest thinkers and his
relationship with the place he loved, and shows how his
experiments--conducted more than 150 years ago--are still revealing
new proofs as we continue to search for the origins of life.
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