Books in the Questions of Science series

Award-winning science writer Goldsmith clearly lays out what we currently know about the universe as a whole. Richly illustrated with photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, this book puts the biggest subject of all-the story of the universe as scientists understand it-within the grasp of English-speaking earthlings.

The great evolutionist Mayr elucidates the subtleties of Darwin's thought and that of his contemporaries and intellectual heirs-A. R. Wallace, T. H. Huxley, August Weisman, Asa Gray. Mayr has achieved a remarkable distillation of Darwin's scientific thought and his legacy to twentieth-century biology.