One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought

Ernst Mayr

Science / History of Biology

Mayr's short 1991 synthesis tracking how Darwin's five distinct theories — common descent, branching evolution, population thinking, natural selection, gradual change — were separated, debated, and absorbed into the modern synthesis. Şengör puts it on his list as the clearest guide to what Darwin actually argued and why evolutionary theory took the shape it did.