http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/1997/10/23#darwin <P><em>See also</em> <a href="adaptation.html">Adaptation</a>, <a href="ecology.html">Ecology</a> and <a href="evolution.html">Evolution</a> of course <ul>Recommended: <li><a href="barzun.html">Jacques Barzun</a>, <cite>Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage</cite> [Much more interesting for the history of Darwin's reception and influence than for Barzun's attempts to critique biology] <li>Anne Becker, <cite>The Transmutation Notebooks: Poems in the Voices of Charles and Emma Darwin</cite> [<a href="../reviews/transmutation-notebooks/">Review</a>] <li>E. Janet Browne, <cite>Charles Darwin: A Biography</cite>, vol.1 <cite>Voyaging</cite> [Only one published so far. <a href="../reviews/voyaging/">Review: An Adaptive Peak in Darwin Biographies</a>] <li>Charles Darwin <ul> <li><cite>On the Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life</cite> [Harvard publishes a very fine fascimile of the first edition, which was the most truly Darwinian one, with a good introduction by Ernst Mayr] <li><cite>The Voyage of the </cite>Beagle </ul> <li>Jane Langton, <cite>Dead as a Dodo</cite> [<a href="../reviews/dead-as-a-dodo/">Review</a>] <li>Jonathan Miller and Borin Van Loon, <cite>Darwin for Beginners</cite> [apparently also published under the title <cite>Charles Darwin</cite>] <li>John S. Wilkins, <a href="http://www.wehi.edu.au/~wilkins/Precursors/darprecs.html">Darwin's Precursors and Influences</a> [<A href="http://earth.ics.uci.edu:8080/faqs/darwin-precursors.html">frameless version</a> at the <a href="http://earth.ics.uci.edu:8080/faqs/">talk.origins site</a>] </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Gillian Beer, <cite>Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction</cite> <li>Janet Browne, <cite>Charles Darwin,</cite> vol. II <li>Charles Darwin <ul> <li><cite>Autobiography</cite> <li><cite>The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex</cite> <li><cite>The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals</cite> [<a href="http://paradigm.soci.brocku.ca/~lward/DARWIN/DARWIN00.HTML">Online</a>] <li><cite>Metaphysics, Materialism &amp; the Evolution of Mind</cite> [extracts from notebooks] <li><cite>The Power of Movement in Plants</cite> <li><cite>The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids Are Fertilized by Insects</cite> </ul> <li>Ernst Mayr, <cite>One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought</cite> <li>Anton Pannekoek, <cite>Marxism and Darwinism</cite> [1912; <a href="http://csf.Colorado.EDU/psn/marx/Other/Pannekoek/Archive/1912-Darwin/">online</a>] </ul>