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Science of Discworld III: Darwin''s Watch

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By (author): Ian Stewart Jack Cohen Terry Pratchett

Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures who lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator - they even intervened to rid the planet of a plague of elves, who attempted to divert humanity onto a different time track. But now it's all gone wrong - Victorian England has stagnated and the pace of progress would embarrass a limping snail. Unless something drastic is done, there won't be time for anyone to invent spaceflight and the human race will be turned into ice-pops.

Why, though, did history come adrift? Was it Sir Arthur Nightingale's dismal book about natural selection? Or was it the devastating response by an obscure country vicar called Charles Darwin, whose bestselling Theology of Species made it impossible to refute the divine design of living creatures? Either way, it's no easy task to change history, as the wizards discover to their cost. Can the God of Evolution come to humanity's aid and ensure Darwin writes a very different book? And who stopped him writing it in the first place?

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  • Weight: 239g
  • Dimensions: 126 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 11 Apr 2013
  • Publisher: Ebury Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780091951726

About Ian StewartJack CohenTerry Pratchett

Ian Stewart (Author) Professor Ian Stewart is the author of many popular science books. He is the mathematics consultant for New Scientist and a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick. He was awarded the Michael Faraday Prize for furthering the public understanding of science and in 2001 became a Fellow of the Royal Society.Terry Pratchett (Author) Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series the first of which The Colour of Magic was published in 1983. In all he was the author of over fifty bestselling books which have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen and he was the winner of multiple prizes including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood for services to literature in 2009 although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any. www.terrypratchettbooks.comJack Cohen (Author) Dr Jack Cohen is an internationally-known reproductive biologist and lives in Newent Gloucestershire. Jack has a laboratory in his kitchen helps couples get pregnant by referring them to colleagues invents biologically realistic aliens for science fiction writers and in his spare time throws boomerangs. Jack who has more letters to his name than can be repeated here writes lectures talks and campaigns to promote public awareness of science particularly biology. He is mostly retired.

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