Evolution’s Workshop: God and science on the Galapagos Islands by Edward
Larson, Basic Books, $27.50, ISBN 0465038107
STRANGE though it seems, there may be Galapagos tortoises alive today that
were strutting their stuff when Charles Darwin was still wearing nappies. A
Galapagos tortoise must have witnessed a few changes over its 200-year lifespan.
Alas, these recollections remain out of our reach. So instead we have Edward
Larson’s Evolution’s Workshop: God and science on the Galapagos
Islands.
Larson has told a scientific story of this remote Pacific archipelago, from
its discovery by the Spanish in 1535 to its present incarnation as…
