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The Origins of Species

Charles Darwin's classic that exploded into public controversy, revolutionized the course of science, and continues to transform our views of the world.Few other books have created such a lasting storm of controversy as The Origin of Species. Darwin's theory that species derive from other species by a gradual evolutionary process and that the average level of each species is heightened by the "survival of the fittest" stirred up popular debate to fever pitch. Its acceptance revolutionized the course of science.As Sir Julian Huxley, the noted biologist, points out in his illuminating introduction, the importance of Darwin's contribution to modern scientific knowledge is almost impossible to evaluate: "a truly great book, one which can still be read with profit by professional biologist."Includes an Introduction by Sir Julian Huxley

1. Charles Darwin

The Origin of Species

Darwin's theory of natural selection is also a humane and inspirational vision of ecological inter-relatedness revealing the almost unthinkably complex and mutual inter-dependencies between animal and plant life, climate and physical environment and - by implication - the human world.

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The Voyage of the Beagle

Tweedehands

When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. This title reprints his journal, in a shortened form, that shows a naturalist making patient observations concerning geology, natural history, people, places and events.

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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

Written late in life for his family rather than the public, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin offers a lucid, candid account of the mind behind modern evolutionary biology. Its content moves from childhood and education to the Beagle voyage, scientific labor, religious doubt, marriage, illness, and the making of On the Origin of Species. Plain, reflective, and understated, the prose belongs to the Victorian tradition of intellectual memoir, yet its quiet precision gives it unusual historical force. Charles Darwin (1809-1882), trained in medicine and theology before becoming a naturalist, was shaped by Cambridge, by geological and biological observation, and above all by the HMS Beagle expedition. His lifelong habits of patient evidence-gathering, self-criticism, and reluctance to overstate conclusions are visible throughout the narrative. The autobiography also reflects the tensions of a thinker whose discoveries transformed science while unsettling inherited religious and social assumptions. This book is essential for readers interested in scientific creativity, Victorian culture, or the personal dimensions of intellectual revolution. It is not merely a supplement to Darwin's scientific works, but a revealing key to their discipline, caution, and moral seriousness.

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Chilo

Este libro contiene las observaciones sobre las islas de Chilo, en el sur de Chile, tomadas de la c lebre obra Viaje de un naturalista alrededor del mundo, de Charles Darwin (1809-1882). A trav s del relato de sus extensas traves as a pie, a caballo y en bote por estas islas, Darwin entrega un diario de viaje que demuestra, adem s de su gran capacidad de observaci n y deducci n, una sorprendente finura est tica ( Darwin escritor, El Mercurio, 8-12-2000).

1. Charles Darwin

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin