On the origin of species: Charles Darwin (Macmillan Collector's Library, 116) - Hardcover

Darwin, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1509827692 ISBN 13: 9781509827695

Verlag: Collector´s Library, 2017

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On the Origin of Species outlines Charles Darwin's world-changing theory that life on Earth had not been brought into being by a creator, but had arisen from a single common ancestor and had evolved over time through the process of natural selection. Received with both enthusiasm and hostility on its publication, it triggered a seismic shift in our understanding of humanity's place in the natural world. It is not only a brilliant work of science but also a clear, vivid, sometimes moving piece of popular writing that reflects both Darwin's genius and his boundless enthusiasm for our planet and its species.This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of On the Origin of Species is complete and unabridged, and features an afterword by Oliver Francis.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles., Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

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From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

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Born in Shropshire in 1809, Charles Darwin studied at Cambridge before sailing on the survey ship HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836. His subsequent journal, The Voyage of the Beagle, brought him fame and repute. In 1859 he published On the Origin of Species, which he repeatedly revised through six editions. These were followed by The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, in which he fully applied his ideas of evolution to the human species. Darwin also published on subjects including botany, ecology and the expression of emotions in animal and man. He had ten children with his wife Emma, three of whom died in childhood. He died on 19 April 1882, aged 73.

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• Verlag: Collector´s Library
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1509827692
• ISBN 13: 9781509827695
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1