REVIEWED BY HARRIET HALL, M.D.
Humanist Press, 2019. 320 pp. $20. ISBN 978-0-931779-82-4
DAVID ORENSTEIN AND ABBY HAFER have written a delightful new book, Darwin’s Apostles: The Men Who Fought to Have Evolution Accepted, Their Times, and How the Battle Continues. Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859. In the 160 years since then, much has been written about Darwin and evolution, but this entertaining, well-written book sheds new light on the issues from an original viewpoint, with a unique focus on Darwin’s apostles—his scientist friends who fought to get his ideas accepted.