Reviews for Thomas Henry Huxley

The average rating for Thomas Henry Huxley based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-10-19 00:00:00 Timothy Boeddeker I was torn whether or not to give this two or three stars. In the end I settled on two, because, honestly, this is probably one of the worst biographies I have read. I did not care for the style Bowler writes in. He asks a lot of rhetorical questions and then proceeds to only halfway answer them. Also, he is constantly repeating himself. Which is fine, if in summary or emphasis on a particular point or to expound on what was previously said. However, Bowler seems to actually copy and paste lines from the intro of the text to later chapters. It was not good. Everything he says is very generalized, as well. He does not provide any new insight. In addition, he keeps saying things like "Darwin would never..." or "Obviously Darwin... If only..." No. You cannot put words in Darwin's mouth. There is no way Bowler could possibly know what Darwin would or would not have done if he had read Mendel or if he had a functioning understanding of genetics, because he simply did not have that knowledge. It was frustrating to read. Another problem, Cambridge did a terrible editing job. There were words that were literally only half italicized. For shame, Cambridge, for shame.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-04-14 00:00:00 Chan Kien Sing/kenny Excelente libro, narrra la vida de un genio, no sólo desde la perspectiva autobiográfica, sino también científica...