The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

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...'

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ISBN 13	9781108005487
ISBN 10	1108005489
Titre	The Origin of Species
Auteur	Charles Darwin
Série	Cambridge Library Collection - Darwin Evolution And Genetics
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Cambridge University Press
Année de publication	2009-07-20
Nombre de pages	492
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