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On The Origin Of Species : The Origin Of Species By Means Of Natural Selection, Or, The Preservation Of Favoured Races In The Struggle For Life / Charles Darwin; edited with an introduction by J.W. Burrow

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Penguin English LibraryPublication details: Penguin : 1968, Harmondsworth.Description: 477 p. : illus., facsim; 18 cmISBN:
  • 0140432051
  • 0140432051
  • 9780140432053
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 500
Summary: Darwin's reasoned, documented arguments carefully advance his theory of natural selection and assertion that species were not created all at once by a divine hand but started with a few simple forms that mutated and adapted over time. Whether commenting on his own ill health, discussing his experiments to test instinct in bees, or relating a conversation about a South American burrowing rodent, Darwin's monumental achievement is surprisingly personal and delightfully readable. Its ideas remain extremely profound even today, making it the most influential book in the natural sciences ever written -- a work not just important to its time, but to the history of humankind.
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General The Harden Library, King's Hospital Main 576.8 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R06725Y0499

Originally published: London : John Murray, 1859 Bibliography: p461-462

Darwin's reasoned, documented arguments carefully advance his theory of natural selection and assertion that species were not created all at once by a divine hand but started with a few simple forms that mutated and adapted over time. Whether commenting on his own ill health, discussing his experiments to test instinct in bees, or relating a conversation about a South American burrowing rodent, Darwin's monumental achievement is surprisingly personal and delightfully readable. Its ideas remain extremely profound even today, making it the most influential book in the natural sciences ever written -- a work not just important to its time, but to the history of humankind.

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