On the Origin of Species, Revised edition Edition
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- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
12 February 2009
Summary
‘Can we doubt … that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?’
In The Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply held beliefs of the Western world. His insistence on the immense length of the past and on the abundance of life-forms, present and extinct, dislodged man from his central position in creation and called into question the role of the Creator. He show…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199219223 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199219222 |
| Author: | Charles Darwin, Gillian Beer |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Edition: | Revised edition |
| Release Date: | 12 February 2009 |
| Weight: | 296g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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Charles Darwin
Edited by Gillian Beer.
Dame Gillian Beer is Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. Her Darwin’s Plots (1983; second edition 2000) was followed by Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter (1996). More recently she has been working on Carroll’s Alice books in the context of nineteenth-century intellectual controversies and a new collection of her essays on literature and science is scheduled for 2008.
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