The Virginia Quarterly Review, April 1st, 2006
AN ESSAY
Charles Darwin holds a peculiar position in the history of science and society. His name is a household word but his ideas-with a single exception-aren't household ideas. He's central, he's iconic, but that's not to say that he's widely and well understood. Everyone knows something about who Darwin was, what he did, what he said, and the thing that most people think they know is: He concocted "the theory of evolution." This isn't quite wrong, just confused and imprecise, but it misses those points about Darwin's work that are most profoundly original, and dangerous, and thrilling.
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