In 1859, an amateur British naturalist published a book of findings that shook the scientific
community to its core and changed the structure of religion and science as we know them. The product of over 20 years of research, The ...
This volume marks a new approach to a seminal work of the modern scientific imagination:
Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species (1859). Darwin's central theory of natural selection neither originated nor could be contained, with the parameters of the natural ...
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, arguably the most important book written in English
in the nineteenth century, transformed the way we looked at the world. It is usually assumed that this is because the idea of evolution was ...
After his famous visit to the Galápagos Islands, Darwin speculated that one might fancy that,
from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends. This book is the classic account ...
Now in paperback, this richly illustrated edition of Charles Darwin's paradigm-shattering masterpiece brings Darwin's life
and controversial theories into full view. Edited and with an introduction by award-winning science journalist David Quammen, it features more than 300 illustrations, including paintings, ...
The Origin is one of the most important books ever published, and a knowledge of
it should be a part of the intellectual equipment of every educated person. . . . The book will endure in future ages so long ...
When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the HMS Beagle
in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory of evolution of species by a ...
This book provides a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most powerful and revolutionary ideas
in world history — the theory of evolution. It traces the development of this momentous concept through the autobiography, letters, and notebook excerpts of the ...
