Item #6536 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of...



On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured...


London: John Murray, 1859.

First edition of “the most influential scientific work of the nineteenth century” (Horblit), “the most important biological work ever written” (Freeman), and “a turning point, not only in the history of science, but in the history of ideas in general” (DSB). “Darwin not only drew an entirely new picture of the workings of organic nature; he.....

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