Darwins Ghosts : In Search of The First Evolutionists

Soon after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected outrage and accusations of heresy, but this letter was different: it accused him of taking credit for a theory that wasnt his. yet when he tried to trace his intellectual forebears he found that history had already forgotten them… Rediscovering Aristotle on the shores of Lesbos and Leonardo da Vinci fossil hunting in the Tuscan hills.