The Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for LifeNew American Library, 1958 - Всего страниц: 479 "The Origin of Species," by Charles Darwin, is part of the "Barnes & Noble Classics"""series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of "Barnes & Noble Classics"
Darwin presented his stunning insights in a landmark book that forever altered the way human beings view themselves and the world they live in. In "The Origin of Species," he convincingly demonstrates the fact of evolution: that existing animals and plants cannot have appeared separately but must have slowly transformed from ancestral creatures. Most important, the book fully explains the mechanism that effects such a transformation: natural selection, the idea that made evolution scientifically intelligible for the first time. One of the few revolutionary works of science that is engrossingly readable, "The Origin of Species" not only launched the science of modern biology but also has influenced virtually all subsequent literary, philosophical, and religious thinking. George Levine, Kenneth Burke Professor of English Literature at Rutgers University, has written extensively about Darwin and the relation of science and literature, particularly in" Darwin and the Novelists." He is the author of many related books, including "The Realistic Imagination, Dying to Know," and his birdwatching memoirs, "Lifebirds."" |
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... flower to another . The flowers of two distinct individuals of the same species would thus get crossed ; and the act of crossing , as can be fully proved , gives rise to vigorous seedlings which consequently would have the best chance ...
... flowers of two kinds , -the one open of the ordinary structure , the other closed and imperfect . These two kinds of flowers sometimes differ wonderfully in structure , yet may be seen to graduate into each other on the same plant . The ...
... flowers of these species ; the style is aborted ; and the ovaria are reduced from three to two . Now although natural selection may well have had the power to prevent some of the flowers from expanding , and to reduce the amount of ...
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VARIATION UNDER DOMESTICATION | 29 |
CHAPTER II | 58 |
CHAPTER III | 73 |
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