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On the Origin of Species

In 1831 British naturalist Charles Darwin joined a five-year expedition on the ship HMS Beagle. As the crew explored the southern hemisphere, Darwin took extensive notes on the organisms he encountered and how they differed from the species back home in England. He began to formulate ideas about the effect of natural selection on the evolution of species over time. The evidence he gathered, especially finch specimens collected from South America and the Galápagos Islands, provided further proof for his theory. In 1859, more than twenty years later, Darwin published his research—and sparked a heated debate. Misunderstood by theologians and misappropriated by eugenicists, it would be years before Darwin's controversial theory gained widespread acceptance in the scientific community. This is an unabridged version of Charles Darwin's fundamental text on evolutionary biology.

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On the Origin of Species

In 1831 British naturalist Charles Darwin joined a five-year expedition on the ship HMS Beagle. As the crew explored the southern hemisphere, Darwin took extensive notes on the organisms he encountered and how they differed from the species back home in England. He began to formulate ideas about the effect of natural selection on the evolution of species over time. The evidence he gathered, especially finch specimens collected from South America and the Galápagos Islands, provided further proof for his theory. In 1859, more than twenty years later, Darwin published his research—and sparked a heated debate. Misunderstood by theologians and misappropriated by eugenicists, it would be years before Darwin's controversial theory gained widespread acceptance in the scientific community. This is an unabridged version of Charles Darwin's fundamental text on evolutionary biology.

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On the Origin of Species

On the Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin
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On the Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

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In 1831 British naturalist Charles Darwin joined a five-year expedition on the ship HMS Beagle. As the crew explored the southern hemisphere, Darwin took extensive notes on the organisms he encountered and how they differed from the species back home in England. He began to formulate ideas about the effect of natural selection on the evolution of species over time. The evidence he gathered, especially finch specimens collected from South America and the Galápagos Islands, provided further proof for his theory. In 1859, more than twenty years later, Darwin published his research—and sparked a heated debate. Misunderstood by theologians and misappropriated by eugenicists, it would be years before Darwin's controversial theory gained widespread acceptance in the scientific community. This is an unabridged version of Charles Darwin's fundamental text on evolutionary biology.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781541518483
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date: 01/01/2018
Series: First Avenue Classics
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 460
File size: 1 MB
Age Range: 12 - 18 Years

About the Author

About The Author

Charles Darwin was born on 12th February 1809. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University for two years before going up to Christ's College Cambridge. Between 1831 and 1836 he sailed on the survey ship HMS Beagle, and the subsequent Journal of the Voyages of the Beagle brought him some fame and repute as a popular author. In 1859 Darwin published The Origin of Species, which went through six editions, each noticeably revised. These were followed in 1871 by The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex in which he first fully applied his ideas of evolution to the human species. As well as the works directly related to the subject of evolution, Darwin published on subjects such as botany, ecology, the geology of South America, the expression of emotions in animals and man, and the comparative study of barnacles. Darwin had fathered ten children with his wife Emma, though three had died in infancy or childhood, and he himself died on 19th April 1882. He was buried, after some controversy, in Westminster Abbey.

Date of Birth:

February 12, 1809

Date of Death:

April 19, 1882

Place of Birth:

Shrewsbury, England

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

B.A. in Theology, Christ¿s College, Cambridge University, 1831

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

  1. The Classic Status of The Origin of Species
  2. Plan of the Introduction
  3. Darwin’s Subject
  4. The Historical Moment of The Origin of Species
  5. Darwin’s Intellectual Character
  6. The Lamarckian and Spencerian Alternative to Darwinism
  7. The Inception and Gestation of Darwin’s Theory
  8. Darwin’s Evolutionary Psychology
  9. The Nature of the Darwinian Revolution
  10. Recommendations for Further Reading
  11. Works Cited and Source Texts

Charles Darwin: A Brief Chronology

A Note on the Text

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

  • An Historical Sketch of the Progress of Opinion on the Origin of Species
    Contents
    Text
    Glossary of the Principal Scientific Terms Used in the Present Volume
    Index

Appendix A: From The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

Appendix B: From Voyage of the Beagle: Excerpts from Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle (1839; 2nd ed. 1845)

Appendix C: From Darwin’s Notebooks

Appendix D: From the 1844 Manuscript

  1. Francis Darwin’s Description of the Manuscript
  2. Extract from a Chapter on Natural Selection

Appendix E: Letters

Appendix F: From The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871)

Appendix G: Contextual Materials

  1. Creationism and Natural Theology
    1. The First Book of Moses called GENESIS
    2. William Paley, from Natural Theology; or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, collected from the appearances of nature (1802)
  2. Pre-Darwinian Speculations on Evolution: Lamarck and Spencer
    1. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, from Zoological Philosophy (1809)
    2. Herbert Spencer
      1. From Social Statics (1851)
      2. From First Principles (1862)
      3. From Principles of Biology (1864), vol. 1, part 3, chapter 12
      4. From Autobiography (1904)
  3. Thomas Malthus, from An Essay on the Principle of Population (6th ed., 1826)
  4. Charles Lyell, from Principles of Geology (1830-33)
  5. The Co-Discovery of Natural Selection: Alfred Russel Wallace, “On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type” (1858)
  6. Thomas Henry Huxley on the Historical Situation of The Origin of Species
    1. From “Evolution in Biology” (1878)
    2. From The Origin of Species (1860)
    3. From “Criticisms on The Origin of Species” (1864)
    4. From “Charles Darwin” (1882)
    5. From “On the Reception of The Origin of Species” (1887)

Register of Names

Index to the Introduction, Darwin’s Historical Sketch, and the Appendices

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