a vendetta, an agenda-driven hatchet job.” Writing at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern calls it an “effort to smear evolution.” Stern complains, “He got it horribly, almost comically wrong.” But Stern isn’t laughing, and he concludes that “no thoughtful reader could possibly tolerate Johnson’s stunning intellectual dishonesty.” Similarly, Rowan Hooper, writing for the New Scientist (posted at Culture Lab), called the book “ludicrous. The book is Darwin: Portrait of a Genius.
We offer science historian Michael Flannery’s review below.Īn eminent historian and author of numerous bestsellers, Paul Johnson has just published a book that is provoking hysterical responses. His 2012 biography Darwin: Portrait of a Genius provoked discussion and disagreement at Evolution News when it was published.
Photo: Charles Darwin in 1855, by Maull and Polyblank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, via Wikimedia Commons.Įditor’s note: The wonderful historian and journalist Paul Johnson died today at age 94.
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