The evolution of Darwin Anthony Daniels on why there would have been no voyage of the Beagle without barnacles

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: March 9, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Darwin and the Barnacle: The Story of One Tiny Creature and History's Most Spectacular Scientific Breakthrough

by Rebecca Stott

Faber, pounds 14.99, 309 pp

pounds 12.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222

PROBABLY THE closest attention most of us ever pay to barnacles is when, rather irritatingly, they have to be scraped from the shells of mussels before cooking. If it weren't for barnacles, I suspect, many more mussels would be eaten than are eaten, so lazy in our cooking habits have we become. A fortune awaits the genetic engineer who breeds a barnacle-resistant mussel.

But the humble - and let ...

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