James Richard Moore, historian of science at the Open University

Open University

The Open University is a distance learning and research university founded by Royal Charter in the United Kingdom...

 and the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

 and visiting scholar at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

, is noted as the author of several biographies of Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...

. 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 Darwin Controversies, and many articles and reviews.

Sources

• Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin, London: Michael Joseph, the Penguin Group, 1991, ISBN 0-14-013192-2
• The Darwin Legend, Hodder & Stoughton Religious, 1995, ISBN 0-340-64243-2

External links

• SOF: Evolution and Wonder - Understanding Charles Darwin (Speaking of Faith from American Public Media) Links to mp3 and transcript, as well as links to supporting material, including radio interview with James Moore.
• Eden and Evolution, interview with James Moore and others.
• Darwin – A `Devil’s Chaplain’? (pdf)
• Moore and Darwin on In Our Time
  In Our Time (BBC Radio 4)
  In Our Time is a live BBC radio discussion series exploring the history of ideas, presented by Melvyn Bragg since 15 October 1998.. It is one of BBC radio's most successful discussion programmes, acknowledged to have "transformed the landscape for serious ideas at peak listening time"...