Nonfiction · 1859
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, first published in 1859, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Introductory
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII
- Chapter VIII
- Chapter IX
- Chapter X
- Chapter XI
- Chapter XII
- Chapter XIII
- Chapter XIV
- Chapter XV
- Introduction
- Chapter I — Variation Under Domestication
- Chapter II — Variation Under Nature
- Chapter III — Struggle for Existence
- Chapter IV — Natural Selection; Or the Survival of the Fittest
- Chapter V — Laws of Variation
- Chapter VI — Difficulties of the Theory
- Chapter VII — Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
- Chapter VIII — Instinct
- Chapter IX — Hybridism
- Chapter X — On the Imperfection of the Geological Record
- Chapter XI — On the Geological Succession of Organic Beings
- Chapter XII — Geographical Distribution
- Chapter XIII — Geographical Distribution—Continued
- Chapter XIV — Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs
- Chapter XV — Recapitulation and Conclusion
- Glossary of the Principal Scientific Terms Used in the Present Volume.
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About the author
1809–1882 · Victorian
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) was born in Shrewsbury, studied medicine at Edinburgh and for the Church at Cambridge, and sailed as naturalist on HMS Beagle from 1831 to 1836. The theory of natural selection took shape in his notebooks from 1837; he published it in On the Origin of Species in 1859, after Alfred Russel Wallace arrived at the same idea, and developed it in The Descent of Man (1871) and later works. He lived and worked at Down House in Kent for forty years.
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