by Julian Huxley, H. B. D. Kettlewell · Estella, Navarra · tapa dura · ISBN 9788434586864
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«Darwin» is the biography of Charles Darwin by Julian Huxley and H. B. D. Kettlewell, published by Salvat in hardcover (205 pages, in Spanish).
The work presents the life of Charles Darwin and the path that led him to formulate his theories on evolution, placing his research in the context of natural history and accounting for its impact on modern biology.
It belongs to the Biblioteca Salvat de Grandes Biografías collection, published in 1988. It includes a prologue by Faustino Cordón and a translation by Jesús Fernández Zulaica.
Work for readers interested in the history of science and in the figure of Charles Darwin.
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth-century modern synthesis. He was secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1935–1942), the first director of UNESCO, a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund, the president of the British Eugenics Society (1959–1962), and the first president of the British Humanist Association.
