Books by James T Costa and Complete Book Reviews

Wallace
Wallace, Darwin, and the Origin of Species
James T. Costa. Harvard Univ, $39.95 (338p) ISBN 978-0-674-72969-8
Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace independently discovered natural selection, a mechanism explaining the diversity of life on Earth, and Costa, professor of biology at Western Carolina University, explores how such a momentous discovery could
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Darwin’s Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
Darwin’s Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
James T. Costa. Norton, $27.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-393-23989-8
Charles Darwin is best known as a great theorizer of ideas on the origin of species, human evolution, and a wealth of other topics that have stood the test of time, but Costa (Wallace, Darwin, and the Origin of Species), professor of biology at...
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Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace
Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace
James T. Costa. Princeton Univ, $39.95 (552p) ISBN 978-0-691-23379-6
Costa (Darwin’s Backyard), a biology professor at Western Carolina University, gives naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) the biography he deserves in this definitive account. Drawing on newly available notebooks and writings by Wallace,...
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