The Origin of Species

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The Origin of Species

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ISBN: 9780553214635
Autore: Charles Darwin
Casa editrice: Bantam Classics
data di pubblicazione: 1999 -6
Formato: Mass Market Paperback
Prezzo: USD 6.95
Numero di pagine: 512

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By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

Charles Darwin   

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The publication of Darwin's The Origin of Species in 1859 marked a dramatic turning point in scientific thought.The volume had taken Darwin more than twenty years to publish, in part because he envisioned the storm of controversy it was certain to unleash. Indeed, selling out its first edition on its first day, The Origin of Species revolutionized science, philosophy, and theology.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 itthe most influential book in the natural sciences ever written-a work not just important to its time, but to the history of humankind.

contents

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE VARLATION UNDER DOMESTICATION
CHAPTER TWO VARIATION UNDER NATURE
CHAPTER THREE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE
CHAPTER FOUR NATURAL SELECTION
CHAPTER FIVE LAWS OF VARIATION
CHAPTER SIX DIFFICULTIES ON THEORY
CHAPTER SEVEN INSTINCT
CHAPTER EIGHT HYBRIDISM
CHAPTER NINE ON THE IMPER FECTION OF THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD
CHAPTER TEN ON THE GEOLOGICAL SUCCESSION OF ORGANIC BEINGS
CHAPTER ELEVEN GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
CHAPTER TWELVE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION-continued
CHAPTER THIRTEEN MUTUAL AFFINIES OF OR GANIG BEINGS:MORPHOLOGY:RUDIMENTARY ORGANS
CHAPTER FOURTEEN RECAPITULATION AND CONCLUSION
GLOSSARY

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