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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... less severe , and there will have been less modification and less extermination . Hence , we can under- stand how it is that the flora of Madeira , according to Oswald Heer , resembles to a certain extent the extinct tertiary flora of ...
... less direct competi- tion with each other and with the aborigines ; and according as the immigrants were capable of varying more or less rapidly , there would ensue in the two or more regions , inde- pendently of their physical ...
... less and less during many genera- tions , owing to some change of habits , or if an organ or gland was less and less functionally exercised , we may infer that it would become reduced in size in the adult descendants of this animal ...
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VARIATION UNDER DOMESTICATION | 29 |
CHAPTER II | 58 |
CHAPTER III | 73 |
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