Janet Browne is a historian of science and Aramont Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus at Harvard University. She is the author of many books on Charles Darwin, including a two-volume biography of him, released in 1995 and 2002, and an abridged and updated version of that biography, published just this year, which is the subject of this interview.

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