The Origin of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition - Brossura

Darwin, Charles

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0451529065 ISBN 13: 9780451529060

Casa editrice: Signet, 2003

Riassunto

A rerelease of the classic work on evolutionary biology, published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the author's birth and featuring a glossary of terms, offers insight into its historical and continuing influence as well as the controversies surrounding it. Reprint .

Su questo libro

Recensione:

“Next to the Bible no work has been quite as influential, in virtually every aspect of human thought, as The Origin of Species.”—Ashley Montagu

“Darwin was one of history’s towering geniuses and ranks with the greatest heroes of man’s intellectual progress.”—George Gaylord Simpson in The Meaning of Evolution

“It is clear that here is one of the most important contributions ever made to philosophic science; and it is at least behooving on scientists, in the light of the accumulation of evidence which the author has summoned in support of his theory, to reconsider the grounds on which their present doctrine of the origin of species is based.”—The New York Times

“Amazingly, 150 years after the publication of The Origin of Species, Darwin's seminal work on the theory of evolution remains the authoritative tract on the subject.”—Library Journal 

L'autore:

Charles Robert Darwin was born in 1809 in Shrewsbury, England. At Cambridge University he formed a friendship with J. S. Henslow, a professor of botany, and that association, along with his enthusiasm for collecting beetles, led to “a burning zeal,” as he wrote in his Autobiography, for the natural sciences. A voyage to the Southern Hemisphere on the H.M.S. Beagle between 1831 and 1836 would lay the foundation for The Origin of Species, published in 1859. His other works include The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871) and Recollections of My Mind and Character, also titled Autobiography (1887). Charles Darwin’s Diary of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle was published posthumously in 1933.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Signet
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0451529065
• ISBN 13: 9780451529060
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 576