Charles Darwin

On the Origin of Species

By Means of Natural Selection

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published: London: J. Murray, 1859.

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Produktdetails

• Thrift Editions
• Verlag: Dover Publications Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 133mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 246g
• ISBN-13: 9780486450063
• ISBN-10: 0486450066
• Artikelnr.: 21901737

Autorenporträt

Charles Darwin was born in England in 1809 and attended the University of Edinburgh to study medicine. When he decided against that vocation, he enrolled at Cambridge where he earned a degree in theology. During an expedition to Africa and South America, Darwin continued his studies in natural science and began writing about his theories of natural selection. His work led to the publication of On the Origin of Species, a book that changed the world. Charles Darwin: Original Thinking Each generation of students comes to Darwin's epoch-making works, several of which are the basis of our publishing program in biology and related fields: The Essential Darwin, 2006; The Descent of Man, 2010; The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, 2006; and On the Origin of the Species, 2006. In the Author's Own Words: "A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there." "I feel most deeply that this whole question of Creation is too profound for human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton! Let each man hope and believe what he can." "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." >

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the Dover Edition Introduction CHAPTER I. Variation under
Domestication. CHAPTER II. Variation under Nature. CHAPTER III. Struggle
for Existence. CHAPTER IV. Natural Selection. CHAPTER V. Laws of Variation.
CHAPTER VI. Difficulties on Theory. CHAPTER VII. Instinct. CHAPTER VIII.
Hybridism. CHAPTER IX. On the Imperfection of the Geological Record.
CHAPTER X. On the Geological Succession of Organic Beings. CHAPTER XI.
Geographical Distribution. CHAPTER XII. Geographical
Distribution--continued. CHAPTER XIII. Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings:
Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs. CHAPTER XIV. Recapitulation and
Conclusion. Index