Books about Darwin's Contemporaries

Books about contemporaries who influenced Darwin.

Darwin's Mentor
by SM Walters & EA Stow
The biography of Darwin's friend and teacher, John Stevens Henslow.

Alfred Russel Wallace: a Life
by Peter Raby
A very readable biography about the co-discoverer of Natural Selection—the man who nearly scooped Darwin.

Evolution's Captain
by Peter Nichols
Biography of the captain of HMS Beagle.

Sunday, 11th May, 2008