Darwin's ghosts [sound recording] : the secret history of evolution / Rebecca Stott.
Material type: SoundPublisher number: RHA 3741 | Random House Audio/Books on TapePublication details: New York : Books on Tape : Random House Audio, p2012.Edition: Unabridged ; Library edDescription: 11 sound discs (822 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inISBN:- 0449010945
- 9780449010945
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Adult Audiobook | Main Library | Audiobook | 576.82 S888 | Available | 33111007408566 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A fascinating account of a diverse group of individuals who, despite the very real dangers of challenging a system in which everything was presumed to have been created perfectly by God, felt compelled to understand where people came from. Ultimately, Stott demonstrates, ideas, including evolution itself, evolve just as animals and plants do, by intermingling, toppling weaker notions, and developing over stretches of time.
"An unabridged production."
Compact discs.
Read by Jean Gilpin.
Evolution was not discovered single-handedly, Rebecca Stott argues, contrary to what has become standard lore, but is an idea that emerged over many centuries, advanced by daring individuals across the globe who had the imagination to speculate on nature's extraordinary ways, and who had the courage to articulate such speculations at a time when to do so was often considered heresy.