Darwiniana

A book built from twenty years of work arrives—and Asa Gray asks who could judge it after a single reading?

In 1860, as Darwin’s Origin of Species stirs debate among American naturalists, Gray takes up the question of how plants and animals came to be. He sets Darwin’s account of species changing through natural causes against Louis Agassiz’s belief that species began independently, then weighs what variation, inheritance and the struggle for life can actually explain. Gray admires Darwin’s argument but refuses an easy verdict, probing whether natural selection can illuminate life’s diversity without closing the door on faith. In a dispute where every theory must face the facts, which ideas will survive the contest?

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