Darwin's Most Wonderful Plants

“A survey of the botanical experimenting and theorizing that occupied Darwin’s golden years. . . . with expert evolutionary commentary.” — New York Review of Books For many people, Charles Darwin’s trip to Galapagos Islands on the Beagle , where he saw a biodiversity of birds, inspired him to write his theory of evolution. But this simplified narrative leaves out a major part of Darwin’s legacy. He published On the Origin of Species nearly thirty years after his voyages. And much