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Article: Don Nardo, ed. Charles Darwin.(Book Review)
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- Teaching History: A Journal of Methods
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- March 22, 2004
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Don Nardo, ed. Charles Darwin. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2000. Pp. 239 Paper $15.96; ISBN 0-7377-0080-7.
The name Charles Darwin, the theory of evolution, and the related concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest still provoke fiery debates nearly 150 years after publication of The Origin of Species in 1859. Don Nardo's Charles Darwin is useful, if limited, anthology of primary and secondary sources by authors such as Desmond King-Hele, Carl Sagan, and Gertrude Himmelfarb on the origins, publication, and impact, short- and long-term, of Darwin's ideas. Organized in four sections, this collection provides excerpts from secondary sources on ...