by Piergiorgio Odifreddi · Longanesi · tapa dura · ISBN 9788830426832
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«In principio era Darwin» is the popular science essay by Piergiorgio Odifreddi, published by Longanesi in hardcover, with 128 pages, in Italian.
Starting from the voyage of the Beagle (1831), the book explains how Darwin formulated evolution by natural selection, an idea that challenged biblical creation and the place of humans in nature. Odifreddi reviews Darwin's thought and its impact on modern culture.
Fourth edition, published in 2009 within the Il piccolo Cammeo collection by Longanesi.
A popular science book for readers interested in evolution, the figure of Darwin and the controversies between science and religion.
Piergiorgio Odifreddi is an Italian mathematician, logician, scholar of the history of science, and popular science writer and essayist, especially on philosophical atheism as a member of the Italian Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics. He is philosophically and politically near to Bertrand Russell and Noam Chomsky.
