An Intimate History Of Evolution

A vivid account of a family at the heart of some of the great cultural shifts of the modern era ... a masterpiece of biography. John Gray, New Statesman An intellectual history of Britain through the radical shifts in science and society that gave birth to modernity ... The whole of British intellectual life seems accessible through some branch of this sprawling family tree. Stephen Buranyi, The Guardian Balancing scholarly rigour with an eye for the absurd, her book reveals the human drama behind scientific fact. The Economist