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

Name: Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
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ISBN: 9780553214635

ISBN-10: 0553214632

ISBN-13: 9780553214635

Edition: N/A

Authors: Charles Darwin

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Perhaps the most readable and accessible of the great works of scientific imagination, The Origin of Species sold out on the day it was published in 1859. Theologians quickly labeled Charles Darwin the most dangerous man in England, and, as the Saturday Review noted, the uproar over the book quickly "passed beyond the bounds of the study and lecture-room into the drawing-room and the public street." Yet, after reading it, Darwin's friend and colleague T. H. Huxley had a different reaction: "How extremely stupid not to have thought of that." Based largely on Darwin's experience as a naturalist while on a five-year voyage aboard H.M.S. Beagle, The Origin of Species set forth a theory of…

Book details

List price: $6.95
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 4.13" wide x 6.88" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English