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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... occurred , that other varia- tions useful in some way to each being in the great and com- plex battle of life , should occur in the course of many successive generations . If such do occur , can we doubt ( re- membering that many more ...
... occur every ten or fifteen thousand years ; and these at long intervals are extremely severe , owing to certain contingencies , of which the most important , as Sir C. Lyell has shown , is the relative position of the land and water ...
... occur , either iden- tically the same or representing each other , and at the same time representing plants of Europe , not found in the in- tervening hot lowlands . A list of the genera of plants collected on the loftier peaks of Java ...
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VARIATION UNDER DOMESTICATION | 29 |
CHAPTER II | 58 |
CHAPTER III | 73 |
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