Biography: Charles Darwin – Evolution [VHS]

Biography: Charles Darwin – Evolution [VHS]

He had to battle prejudice, ignorance and his own fear in his search for the truth. More than any other scientist, he changed mankind’s view of the world and our place in it. Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution stands as one of the most important discoveries in the history of science. Yet in his lifetime, Darwin was reluctant to reveal what he had learned for fear that it would make him and his family despised outcasts. He was right to worry; more than a century later, there are those who

The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution

Twenty-one years passed between Charles Darwin’s epiphany that “natural selection” formed the basis of evolution and the scientist’s publication of On the Origin of Species. Why did Darwin delay, and what happened during the course of those two decades? The human drama and scientific basis of these years constitute a fascinating, tangled tale that elucidates the character of a cauti