DARWIN AND THE BARNACLE: THE STORY OF ONE TINY CREATURE AND HISTORY’S MOST SPECTACULAR BREAKTHROUGH

Book ID/图书代码： 04579005B18741

English Summary/英文概要： In 1846 Darwin had a secret: an essay sealed in an envelope and locked in his study drawer which would overturn human understanding of time and nature forever. Before he published, he had just one more riddle to solve, that of the strange anatomy of a barnacle, nick-named Mr Arthrobalanus, found in South America during the voyage of the Beagle. Abberant creatures like these are the key to the processes of natural selection, but eight years later, with a study filled with hundreds of barnacle specimens, the case is still unclosed. Was Darwin hesitating? Or was he testing his "dangerous idea" to destruction? "Darwin and the Barnacle" is the story of how genius sometimes proceeds through indirection - and how one small creature contributed to history’s most spectacular scientific breakthrough.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1846年，一個改變人類末來，關於自然時序的秘密，達爾文用手輕抹嘴唇，信封連同秘密，一起被鎖進抽屜裡，達爾文發表這個秘密之前，還差一個謎題未解…。
他搭乘小獵犬號完成最後一次科學航行，在南非發現甲殼動物「藤壺」(註)[S1] 。回到肯特郡（Kent）的唐恩居(Down Hous)家中隱居後，他開始花八年的時間研究藤壺，從解剖藤壺的過程，開啟他證明物競天擇的進化理論。(Kellen)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 作者Rebecca Stott是一位作家，學者和廣播人。目前在安格利亞理工大學教授英國文學，同時她也是研究科學歷史與哲學的學者。除了撰寫關於科學的科普書，她也曾寫過小說《GHOSTWALK》廣受好評。
Rebecca Stott is a writer, academic and radio broadcaster. She teaches in the English Literature Department of Anglia Polytechnic University in Cambridge and is an affiliated scholar in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University.

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