The Origin of Species

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

By:

Charles Darwin

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - Darwin, Evolution and Genetics

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This sixth edition of The Origin of Species was published in 1876. It is the last edition on which Darwin himself worked before his death in 1882, and offers a useful complement to the 2009 scholarly edition, edited by Jim Endersby and published by Cambridge University Press in Darwin's bicentennial year. The sixth edition contains a 'historical sketch' in which Darwin reviews the many works by eminent European and American scientists – beginning with Lamarck in 1801 – in which ideas of evolutionary species change and of natural selection were touched on but not developed. This edition, like all from the second onwards, contains the words 'by the Creator', controversially added to the famous last sentence in the book: 'There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one...'

Release date Australia

July 20th, 2009

Author

Charles Darwin

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Edition

6th Revised edition

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

492

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - Darwin, Evolution and Genetics

Dimensions

140x216x28

ISBN-13

9781108005487

Product ID

3159700

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