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Darwin's Falling Sparrow: Victorian Evolutionists and the Meaning of Suffering Hardcover – December 10, 2023

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The “Darwin Story” has been told in many different ways and from a wide range of perspectives. Some focus on the detailed development of evolution theory. Others examine the ways in which evolution was used to justify different ideologies. But no one has told this tale as a story of mothers, fathers, and families wrestling with alternative explanations of suffering in a time of tremendously high child mortality rates. Darwin’s Falling Sparrow explores how both Darwin and his readers confronted evolutionary ideas as more than scientists, ministers, or public intellectuals. They were also parents, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, and friends, who, in their attempt to devise a new explanation for the ubiquitous “Fall of Every Sparrow,” were inspired to see the world through new, extraordinary lenses that altered the course of history, science, and medicine.
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Kristin Johnson is a professional historian of science who specializes in the history of the naturalist tradition (evolution biology, ecology, natural history museums, etc.) and has taught in the Science, Technology and Society Program at the University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, Washington) since 2006.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Prometheus
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 10, 2023
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1633888746
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1633888746
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.35 x 1.2 x 9.25 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #4,310,987 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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  • Piers Hale
    5.0 out of 5 stars A harrowing but beautiful book.
    Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2025
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    Darwin's Falling Sparrow
    The Victorians wrote about everything — the highs and lows of love and life, from the mundane to the most tragic. The rate of infant mortality in the mid-nineteenth century meant that one third of all children died before they reached the age of five, and thus child death was an all too common tragedy that doctors could do little to prevent. As Johnson shows in this harrowing, compassionate, and in places most beautiful story, parents thus afflicted looked to God’s greater purpose to explain the existence of such suffering in the world — But the question remained why an omniscient and omnipotent God would intend such a harvest of innocents. Johnson makes the case that it was just this question that haunted Darwin in his own quest to make sense of the unending struggle for existence and the seemingly senseless slaughter that he saw throughout the natural world. This telling of the Darwinian revolution brings so many of its characters to life through the death of their children, and how they struggled to go on with life after having experienced what all parents most dread.
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