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The Origin of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition
Few other books have created such a lasting storm of controversy as The Origin of Species. Darwin's theory that species derive from other species by a gradual evolutionary process and that the average level of each species is heightened by the "survival of the fittest" stirred up popular debate to fever pitch. Its acceptance revolutionized the course of science.
As Sir Julian Huxley, the noted biologist, points out in his illuminating introduction, the importance of Darwin's contribution to modern scientific knowledge is almost impossible to evaluate: "a truly great book, one which can still be read with profit by professional biologist."
Includes an Introduction by Sir Julian Huxley
Book Details
- Publisher: Signet Book
- Publish Date: Sep 2nd, 2003
- Pages: 576
- Language: English
- Edition: Anniversary - 0150
- Dimensions: 6.70in - 4.10in - 1.10in - 0.60lb
- EAN: 9780451529060
- Recommended age: 18-UP
- Categories: • Life Sciences - Evolution• History
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"Darwin’s description of the animals and plants he encountered on his journey, in the 1830s, to the Galapagos Islands aboard the hms Beagle is written with a deft, literary touch.... Biology—not to mention religion and human society at large—has never been the same since."
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Praise for this book
"Darwin was one of history's towering geniuses and ranks with the greatest heroes of man's intellectual progress."--George Gaylord Simpson in The Meaning of Evolution
"It is clear that here is one of the most important contributions ever made to philosophic science; and it is at least behooving on scientists, in the light of the accumulation of evidence which the author has summoned in support of his theory, to reconsider the grounds on which their present doctrine of the origin of species is based."--The New York Times
"Amazingly, 150 years after the publication of The Origin of Species, Darwin's seminal work on the theory of evolution remains the authoritative tract on the subject."--Library Journal
What people are saying
"Darwin’s description of the animals and plants he encountered on his journey, in the 1830s, to the Galapagos Islands aboard the hms Beagle is written with a deft, literary touch.... Biology—not to mention religion and human society at large—has never been the same since."
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Charles Darwin's seminal work, “On the Origin of Species,” was not just a triumph of science but of style. He was born on this day in 1809. https://t.co/HzOHQM4Xvn