One Beetle Too Many: The Extraordinary Adventures of Charles Darwin

One Beetle Too Many: The Extraordinary Adventures of Charles Darwin
ISBN-10
0763668435
ISBN-13
9780763668433
Series
One Beetle Too Many
Category
Juvenile Nonfiction
Pages
43
Language
English
Published
2014
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Authors
Kathryn Lasky, Matthew Trueman

Description

Describes the life and work of the renowned nineteenth-century biologist who transformed conventional Western thought with his theory of natural selection.

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