On the Origin of Species

Revised Edition

Charles Darwin
Edited by Gillian Beer

Oxford World's Classics

• Charles Darwin revolutionized our ideas about the natural world and our place in it by introducing the concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest, and his ideas still provoke controversy today.
• Editor Gillian Beer has writtten extensively about Darwin and about scientific writing in its cultural context. Her wide-ranging introduction considers the development of Darwin's ideas, the scientific context, the nature of his theories and the impact of his work on his contemporaries.
• Includes a Register of Writers referred to in the text of the Origin, a Glossary of Scientific Terms and an Index.

On the Origin of Species

Revised Edition

Charles Darwin
Edited by Gillian Beer

Oxford World's Classics

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On the Origin of Species

Revised Edition

Charles Darwin
Edited by Gillian Beer

Oxford World's Classics

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On the Origin of Species

Revised Edition

Charles Darwin
Edited by Gillian Beer

Oxford World's Classics

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The impact of On the Origin of Species

Charles Darwin was widely known as a travel writer and natural historian in the twenty years before On the Origin of Species appeared in 1859. The Voyage of the Beagle was a great popular success in the 1830s. But the radical theories developed in the Origin had been developed more or less in secret during those intervening twenty years.

Posted on November 11, 2015

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