Darwin's ghosts : in search of the first evolutionists / Rebecca Stott.

London : Bloomsbury, [2012], ©2012.

xv, 383 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Also published with subtitle: the secret history of evolution. New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2012.

Darwin's list, Kent, 1859 -- Aristotle's Eyes, Lesbos, 344 BC -- The Worshipful Curiosity of Jahiz, Basra and Baghdad, 850 -- Leonardo and the potter, Milan, 1493; Paris, 1570 -- Trembley's Polyp, The Hague, 1740 -- The Consul of Cairo, Cairo, 1708 -- The Hotel of the Philosophers, Paris, 1749 -- Erasmus underground, Derbyshire, 1767 -- The Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 1800 -- The Sponge Philosopher, Edinburgh, 1826 -- The Encyclopedist, Edinburgh, 1844 -- Alfred Wallace's fevered dreams, Malay Archipelago, 1858.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-367) and index.