Evolution's Workshop

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, the captivating history of the Galapagos Islands and the explorers and researchers who landed on its shores before and after Darwin

“Science writing at its best.” —Seattle Times

The Galápagos Islands were largely overlooked until Charles Darwin arrived in the 1830s and recognized that their isolation and desolation were a boon for the naturalist. Since then, these islands have been the locale of every major turning point in evolutionary theory. Pulit...