Charles Darwin changed radically and irreversibly the vision we have of ourselves and our world, and we can say that his theory of evolution is one of the greatest intellectual achievements of human history. This little book gives the reader an excellent summary of the life history and theories of Darwin, written by three of the world's leading authorities on his life and thought. Far from a hagiography intellectual profile of the great English naturalist, the authors present a thoroughly Darwin embodied in the social, economic and political and religious of his time.