Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory
by Costa, James T., 1963- (Author)
Summary
James T. Costa takes readers on a journey from Darwin's childhood through his voyage on the HMS Beagle where his ideas on evolution began. We then follow Darwin to Down House, his bustling home of forty years, where he kept porcupine quills at his desk to dissect barnacles, maintained a flock of six... Full description
- 1. Origins of an experimentiser. Experimentising: Going to seed
- 2. Barnacles to barbs. Experimentising: Doing your barnacles
- 3. Untangling the bank. Experimentising: A taste for botany
- 4. Buzzing places. Experimentising: Bees' cells and bubbles
- 5. A grand game of chess. Experimentising: Getting around
- 6. The sex lives of plants. Experimentising: Darwinian encounters of the floral kind
- 7. It bears on design. Experimentising: Orchidelirium
- 8. Plants with volition. Experimentising: Feed me, Seymour!
- 9. Crafty and sagacious climbers. Experimentising: Seek and ye shall find
- 10. Earthworm serenade. Experimentising: Get thee to a wormery.