Richard Owen

by Patrick Armstrong

Book Overview

A biography of the provocative nineteenth-century English naturalist.

Brilliant, hard-working, and immensely productive, the naturalist Richard Owen was a great ambassador for science and played an outsized role in shaping London's Natural History Museum. Still, Owen was a provocative bully, accused of plagiarism, and the only man Charles Darwin claimed to hate since Owen staunchly opposed his ideas about natural selection despite sharing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178914762X
• ISBN13: 9781789147629
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.8"