Literary Work
Emma Townshend is the author of Darwin's Dogs: How Darwin's Pets Helped Form a World-Changing Theory of Evolution (2009). This book looks at how Darwin used his much-loved dogs as evidence of his continuing argument that all animals including human beings descended from one common ancestor, examining parts of Darwin's own writings in The Descent of Man. Her postgraduate thesis involved research about Darwin’s correspondence with plant breeders and gardeners which appears in her book. She has also written on Darwin’s connections with the Royal Botanic Garden for Kew Magazine, and led special guided tours of Kew in Darwin’s bicentenary year, 2009.
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