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The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the Beagle

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099519171

  • Length: 992  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 43mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 671g

  • RRP: £9.99

The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the Beagle

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DARWIN'S GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER, RUTH PADEL

When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory of evolution of species by a process of natural selection. This theory, published as The Origin of Species in 1859, is the basis of modern biology and the concept of biodiversity. It also sparked a fierce scientific, religious and philosophical debate which still continues today.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099519171

  • Length: 992  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 43mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 671g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • Why does Darwin's theory matter now? Because it is the basis of modern biology and much medical research; it provides a tool with which to understand the natural world; it offers a deeper, if imperfect, understanding of our behaviour, about where we came from and where we might be going

    Observer

  • The single best idea anybody ever had

    Daniel Dennet, philosopher

  • The most important book ever written

    New Scientist

  • No other book has so transformed how we look at the natural world and mankind's origins

    Sunday Telegraph

  • There are few books that I read more than once but The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin is one

    David Attenborough

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About the Author

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin, a Victorian scientist and naturalist, has become one of the most famous figures of science to date. Born in 1809 to an upper-middle-class medical family, he was destined for a career in either medicine or the Anglican Church. However, he never completed his medical education and his future changed entirely in 1831 when he joined HMS Beagle as a self-financing, independent naturalist. On returning to England in 1836 he began to write up his theories and observations which culminated in a series of books, most famously On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859, where he challenged and contradicted contemporary biological and religious beliefs with two decades worth of scientific investigation and theory. Darwin's theory of natural selection is now the most widely accepted scientific model of how species evolve. He died in 1882 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Charles Darwin

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