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03183aam a2200337 i 4500 001 94FB8AEC383D11EFA74ADF9234ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240702013519 008 240530t20242024nyua b 001 0beng d 020 $a 1324036745 020 $a 9781324036746 040 $d SILO 050 14 $a QH31.D2 $b M37 2024 082 04 $a 576.8/2092 $2 23/eng/20240528 100 1 $a Markel, Howard, $e author. 245 10 $a Origin story : $b the trials of Charles Darwin / $c Howard Markel. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b W. W. Norton & Company, $c 2024. 300 $a xii, 352 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-335) and index. 505 0 $a Preface -- Author's note -- Introduction: A temple of science -- Part I: Down. The letter -- First -- Survival of the fittest -- Part II: The book. The devil's chaplain -- Best seller -- Part III: Friends and foes. Darwin's bulldog -- The dinosaur -- Soapy Sam -- A mysterious malady -- Part IV: Oxford. The association -- Pax interruptus -- Mawnkey! Mawnkey! -- The rebuttals -- The dogs bark but the caravan moves on -- Epilogue: After myth. 520 $a "By early morning of June 30, 1860, a large crowd began to congregate in front of Oxford University's brand-new Museum of Natural History. The occasion was the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and the subject of discussion was Charles Darwin's new treatise: fact or fiction? Darwin, a simultaneously reclusive and intellectually audacious squire from Kent, claimed to have solved 'that mystery of mysteries,' introducing a logical explanation of the origin of species--how they adapted, even transmogrified, through natural selection. At stake, on that summer's day of spirited debate, was the very foundation of modern biology, not to mention the future of the church. Without fear of exaggeration, Darwin's thesis would forever change our understanding of the life sciences and the natural world. And yet the author himself was nowhere to be found in the debate hall--instead, he was miles away, seeking respite from a spate of illnesses that had plagued him for much of his adult life. In Origin Story, medical historian Howard Markel recounts the two-year period (1858 to 1860) of Darwin's writing of On the Origin of Species through its spectacular success and controversy. Simultaneously, Markel delves into the mysterious health symptoms Darwin developed, combing the literature to emerge with a cogent diagnosis of a case that has long fascinated medical historians. The result is a colorful portrait of the main, his friends and enemies, and his seminal work, which resonates to this day"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Darwin, Charles, $d 1809-1882. 600 10 $a Darwin, Charles, $d 1809-1882 $x Health. 650 0 $a Evolution (Biology) $x History $y 19th century. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000519. 941 $a 2 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20240702042954.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20240702031822.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=94FB8AEC383D11EFA74ADF9234ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search