Origins and Evolution: two new books hit the shelves
The Darwin Correspondence Project’s most recent publications, a pair of volumes of selected letters from Charles Darwin’s school days through to his late middle age, are now available internationally from Cambridge University Press.
The first volume, Origins covers Darwin’s early career and the years leading up to Darwin’s publication of his seminal work, Origin of Species. It also contains recently discovered letters written by Darwin as a schoolboy of twelve.
Evolution, the second volume, covers the period from 1859 to 1870, the eve of publication of Descent of Man – the work in which Darwin discussed the evolution of the human species in detail for the first time. It contains a foreword by Sir David Attenborough.