While resting quietly, I have been reading books on the history of science, evolutionary biology, and a biography of Charles Darwin (1809-1882). These books will keep me fascinated and busy for a few weeks. I have read all or parts of these books before 2017.
The "Annotated Origin" is an outstanding volume. I am always amazed at Darwin's use of many interesting and cogent examples to illustrate his key points of theory. Beings change over generations based on lived circumstances. We don't need supernatural causes to explain how beings have existed and changed over time.
"The History of Science" by Stephen F. Mason. Collier, 1956.
"The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of the Species." By Charles Darwin. Annotated by James T. Costa. Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 2009. Indices, references, biographies, appendices, 537 pages. ISBN: 9780674032811.
"The Greatest Show on Earth" by Richard Dawkins.
"Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist" by Adrian Desmond and James Moore. Norton, 1994, 868 pages. The Darwin biography was detailed, comprehensive, historically fascinating, and very interesting to me. Life in London, and Down House, from 1840-1880, is well documented in this book.
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