One Step Sideways, Three Steps Forward: One Woman's Path to Becoming a Biologist

The story of the unorthodox and inspiring life and career of a pioneering biologist

Scientist Rosemary Grant’s journey in life has involved detours and sidesteps—not the shortest or the straightest of paths, but one that has led her to the top of evolutionary biology. In this engaging and moving book, Grant tells the story of her life and career—from her childhood love of nature in England’s Lake District to an undergraduate education at the University of Edinburgh through a swerve to Canad...