The Case of the Midwife Toad Author:Arthur Koestler In a superb intellectual thriller, Arthur Koestler reopens one of the most sensational and bitter scientific controversies of the century, which ended with the 1926 suicide of an Austrian biologist, Dr. Paul Kammerer, whose experiments in evolution incurred the wrath of the international scientific community. Perhaps only Koestler could ha... more »ve written it, because it required expert knowledge and familiarity with scientific work in evolution, combined with the creativity and imaginative insight of an outstanding novelist.« less