James Richard Moore is a historian of science at the Open University and the University of Cambridge and visiting scholar at Harvard University, is noted as the author of several biographies of Charles Darwin.[1] As a Cambridge research scholar and a member of the teaching staff at the Open University, he has studied and written about Darwin since the 1970s, co-authoring with Adrian Desmond the major biography Darwin, and also writing The Darwin Legend, The Post-Darwinian Controversies, and many articles and reviews.
Publications
edit- James Moore. (1979). The Post-Darwinian Controversies: A Study of the Protestant Struggle to Come to Terms with Darwin in Great Britain and America, 1870-1900, Cambridge University Press
- Adrian Desmond; James Moore (1991), Darwin, Michael Joseph, Penguin Books
- Adrian Desmond, James Moore & Janet Browne (2007), Charles Darwin, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-921354-2, retrieved 30 July 2010
- Adrian Desmond; James Moore (2009), Darwin's Sacred Cause, Allen Lane, Penguin
Notes
edit- ^ Editorial Review (2008), "Darwin's Sacred Cause (book review)", Publishers Weekly, 255 (48): 38, ISBN 978-0547055268, retrieved 31 July 2010
References
edit- Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin, London: Michael Joseph, the Penguin Group, 1991, ISBN 0-14-013192-2
- The Darwin Legend, Hodder & Stoughton Religious, 1995, ISBN 0-340-64243-2
External links
edit- SOF: Evolution and Wonder - Understanding Charles Darwin (Speaking of Faith from American Public Media) Links to mp3 and transcript, as well as links to supporting material, including radio interview with James Moore.
- Eden and Evolution, interview with James Moore and others.
- "Darwin – A 'Devil's Chaplain'?" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on February 27, 2008. (pdf)
- Moore and Darwin on In Our Time