The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for LifeWith his revolutionary work The Origin of Species Charles Darwin overthrew contemporary beliefs about Divine Providence and the beginnings of life on earth. Written for the general public of the 1850s, it is a rigorously documented but highly readable account of the scientific theory that now lies at the root of our present attitude to the universe. Challenging notions such as the fixity of species with the idea of natural selection, and setting forth the results of pioneering work on the ecology of animals and plants, it made a lasting contribution to philosophical and scientific thought. |
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... Origin of Species is exempt. It is, together perhaps withGalileo's dialogues on motion, easily the most readableand approachable ofthe great revolutionary worksof the scientific imagination. Thetechnical terms Darwin uses are neitherso ...
... Origin of Species is exempt. It is, together perhaps withGalileo's dialogues on motion, easily the most readableand approachable ofthe great revolutionary worksof the scientific imagination. Thetechnical terms Darwin uses are neitherso ...
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... Origin hasa scopeand sweep which an ageofspecialists can scarcely hope to recapture; itisa vast panorama of thenatural world written bya polymath in the biological sciences: geologist, zoologist, palaeontologist, botanist and pigeon ...
... Origin hasa scopeand sweep which an ageofspecialists can scarcely hope to recapture; itisa vast panorama of thenatural world written bya polymath in the biological sciences: geologist, zoologist, palaeontologist, botanist and pigeon ...
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... Origin. The impact of Darwin's argument,as Millnoted, was cumulative rather than immediate. For allthat, and for all its lack of challenging epigrams,The Origin is aprofoundly polemical work, thoughit is not particularly polemical in ...
... Origin. The impact of Darwin's argument,as Millnoted, was cumulative rather than immediate. For allthat, and for all its lack of challenging epigrams,The Origin is aprofoundly polemical work, thoughit is not particularly polemical in ...
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... Origin. These were some of the difficulties which Darwinhad to consider, and which the author of The Vestiges had largely ignored, in the eighteen-forties. Darwin regarded The Vestigesas rubbish, and Huxley reviewed it devastatingly ...
... Origin. These were some of the difficulties which Darwinhad to consider, and which the author of The Vestiges had largely ignored, in the eighteen-forties. Darwin regarded The Vestigesas rubbish, and Huxley reviewed it devastatingly ...
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INTRODUCTION | |
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ranging muchdiffused andcommon speciesvary most Species | |
CHAPTER FOUR | |
DIFFICULTIES ON THEORY | |
INSTINCT | |
making instinct Difficulties on the theory of the Natural | |
appearance in the lowest known fossiliferous strata | |
CHAPTER ELEVEN | |
Present distribution cannot be accounted for by differencesin physical conditions Importance of barriers Affinityof the productions ofthe same contin... | |
Distribution of freshwater productions On the inhabitants | |
Difficulties onthe theoryof | |
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