About James Moore
Born 1947. James Moore is a British biographer and historian.
James Richard Moore is a historian of science at the Open University and the University of Cambridge and a visiting scholar at Harvard University. He is the author of several biographies of Charles Darwin. As a Cambridge research scholar and a member of the teaching staff at the Open University, he has studied and written about Darwin since the 1970s, co-authoring with Adrian Desmond the major biography Darwin, and also writing The Darwin Legend, The Post-Darwinian Controversies, and many articles and reviews.
Publications
James Moore. (1979). The Post-Darwinian Controversies: A Study of the Protestant Struggle to Come to Terms with Darwin in Great Britain and America, 1870-1900, Cambridge University Press
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author of several biographies of Charles Darwin (born 1947)
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