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The Movie, Creation opened in theaters on January 22. Creation, directed by Jon Amiel and starring Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, and Jeremy Northam, is based on Randal Keynes’s Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution. Keynes is the great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin. His book is available through our HCPL catalog.

If you are interested in reading more about Charles Darwin, his times, his scientific beliefs and his personal struggles, you might also like these:

Charles and Emma : the Darwins' leap of faith by Deborah Heiligman
"Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, his revolutionary tract on evolution and the fundamental ideas involved, in 1859. 150 years later, the theory of evolution continues to create tension between the scientific and religious communities. This same debate raged within Darwin himself, and played an important part in his marriage: his wife, Emma, was very religious, and her faith challenged Charles as he worked on his theory of evolution. Deborah Heiligman's new biography of Charles Darwin is a thought-provoking account of the man behind evolutionary theory: how his personal life affected his work and vice versa." (catalog notes)

The Reluctant Mr. Darwin : an intimate portrait of Charles Darwin and the making of his theory of evolution by David Quammen
"He did not found a movement or a religion says Montana-based writer of fiction and natural history Quammen, he never assembled a creed of scientific axioms and ascribed his name to them. He was in fact a reclusive biologist who wrote books on some minor and some major topics, made mistakes, and changed his mind. He admits that most of Darwin's writings relate to the unity of all life as reflected in the processes of evolution, but he had nothing to do with Darwinism and its scientific and religious controversies." (catalog notes)

The Darwin Conspiracy by John Darnton
"In this riveting new novel, best-selling author John Darnton transports us to Victorian England and around the world to reveal the secrets of a legendary nineteenth-century figure. Darnton elegantly blends the power of fact and the insights of fiction to explore the many mysteries attached to the life and work of Charles Darwin." (catalog notes)

Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
A work of fiction about another scientist seeking to advance her ideas about extinction and the age of the earth before Darwin's theory of evolution.

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