The origin of species by means of natural selection = or the Preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life

This sixth edition of The Origin of Species was published in 1876. It is the last edition on which Darwin himself worked before his death in 1882, and offers a useful complement to the 2009 scholarly edition, edited by Jim Endersby and published by Cambridge University Press in Darwin's bicente...

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Otros Autores: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2009.
Edición:Sixth edition
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Cambridge library collection. Darwin.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Sumario:This sixth edition of The Origin of Species was published in 1876. It is the last edition on which Darwin himself worked before his death in 1882, and offers a useful complement to the 2009 scholarly edition, edited by Jim Endersby and published by Cambridge University Press in Darwin's bicentennial year. The sixth edition contains a 'historical sketch' in which Darwin reviews the many works by eminent European and American scientists - beginning with Lamarck in 1801 - in which ideas of evolutionary species change and of natural selection were touched on but not developed. This edition, like all from the second onwards, contains the words 'by the Creator', controversially added to the famous last sentence in the book: 'There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one...'
Notas:Originally published: London : John Murray, 1876.
Descripción Física:1 recurso electrónico (xxi, 458 páginas)
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780511694295