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"No Kill Date"

Venture Literary Sells Graphic Adaptation of Darwin’s The Origin of Species to Bloomsbury

On June 8, 2007, Frank R. Scatoni of Venture Literary sold the World English rights for the graphic adaptation of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species, written by Michael C. Keller and illustrated by Nicolle Rager-Fuller, to Colin Dickerman at Bloomsbury. Translation rights are being handled by Whitney Lee, wlee@fieldingagency.com.

In the 1859 landmark scientific treatise The Origin of Species, British naturalist Charles Darwin used empirical evidence to advance his revolutionary theory that organisms—through the process of natural selection—evolve over long periods of time through adaptations to their environments. These improvements are hereditary variations that allow certain organisms to not only survive, but also thrive. By positing a primordial ancestor from which all life is descended, Darwin debunked Creationist dogma and reluctantly created a hotbed of religious and scientific controversy that still roils today.

Darwin's work is the foundation of modern studies in genetics, inheritance, and evolutionary biology, yet still is a magnet for debate. The Origin of Species: A Graphic Adaptation will broaden Darwin's appeal and introduce his work to a wide segment of society. The work, which elegantly unveiled to the world the processes of natural selection and survival of the fittest, will be published at an especially important time, in 2009, for the 150th anniversary of the original's publication.

Michael C. Keller has written extensively on scientific, environmental, and business subjects as a daily journalist. His work contributed to a 2006 Pulitzer Gold Medal for Public Service for coverage of Hurricane Katrina.

Nicolle Rager-Fuller, a science illustrator, embraces the challenge to pictorially represent subjects not easily photographed, whether they are microscopic, macroscopic, cosmic, or just plain abstract. The National Science Foundation and the Stanford Linear Accelerator has used Fuller's art to enhance the public's understanding of complex scientific concepts.

The Origin of Species: A Graphic Adaptation looks to reintroduce Charles Darwin’s seminal treatise on the evolution of organisms to a new generation that, more than any time before, is acutely stimulated by the visual.





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