A review by hannah_fox
Darwin: A Graphic Biography by Eugene Byrne

3.0

Lots of good information and cute illustrations (the book is narrated by a group of primates), but could've used some better editing. There was one random page about three natives from Tierra Del Fuego that Darwin and his crewmates took back to England and later back to Tierra Del Fuego that didn't connect to the surrounding pages very well. Also, for a book on a scientist, a naturalist and biologist no less, you'd think they wouldn't make the mistake of using phrases like "neither animals nor birds" or "plants, animals, fish, microbes, all living things". Birds and fish are animals! This is one of my biggest pet peeves and had I been the editor I would've changed those to "none of the animals" and "plants, animals, microbes, all living things". Otherwise enjoyable, although you'll need to remember it's written for younger readers so don't feel condescended to when they define words you know the meaning of (that reminds me of another editing mistake - in the same paragraph they defined mutations as "little changes" and then as "tiny changes" - the problem, to be clear, not that they changed from little to tiny, but that they defined it twice).