The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the 'Beagle': Introduction by Richard Dawkins by Darwin, Charles
The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the 'Beagle': Introduction by Richard Dawkins by Darwin, Charles

The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the 'Beagle': Introduction by Richard Dawkins

Easily the most influential book published in the nineteenth century, Darwin's The Origin of Species is also...
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The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the 'Beagle': Introduction by Richard Dawkins by Darwin, Charles

The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the 'Beagle': Introduction by Richard Dawkins

$85.20
The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the 'Beagle': Introduction by Richard Dawkins by Darwin, Charles

The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the 'Beagle': Introduction by Richard Dawkins

$85.20
Author: Charles Darwin
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Easily the most influential book published in the nineteenth century, Darwin's The Origin of Species is also that most unusual phenomenon, an altogether readable discussion of a scientific subject. On its appearance in 1859 it was immediately recognized by enthusiasts and detractors alike as a work of the greatest importance: its revolutionary theory of evolution by means of natural selection provoked a furious reaction that continues to this day.

The Origin of Species is here published together with Darwin's earlier Voyage of the 'Beagle.' This 1839 account of the journeys to South America and the Pacific islands that first put Darwin on the track of his remarkable theories derives an added charm from his vivid description of his travels in exotic places and his eye for the piquant detail.



Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: 10/14/2003
Pages: 1024
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.09lbs
Size: 8.15h x 5.26w x 1.82d
ISBN: 9781400041275

About the Author
CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN was born in 1809 in Shrewsbury, England, to a wealthy intellectual family, his grandfather being the famous physician Erasmus Darwin. At Cambridge University he formed a friendship with J. S. Henslow, a professor of botany, and that association, along with his enthusiasm for collecting beetles, led to "a burning zeal," as he wrote in his Autobiography, for the natural sciences. When Henslow obtained for him the post of naturalist on H.M.S. Beagle, the course of his life was fixed. The five-year-long voyage to the Southern Hemisphere between 1831 and 1836 would lay the foundation for his ideas about evolution and natural selection. Upon his return Darwin lived in London before retiring to his residence at Down, a secluded village in Kent. For the next forty years he conducted his research there and wrote the works that would change human understanding forever. Knowing of the resistance from the orthodox scientific and religious communities, Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859 only when another naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace, independently reached the same conclusions. His other works include The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871) and Recollections of My Mind and Character, also titled Autobiography (1887). Charles Darwin's Diary of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle was published posthumously in 1933. Darwin died in 1882; he is buried in Westminster Abbey.
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