On Natural Selection - Softcover

Charles Darwin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141399430 ISBN 13: 9780141399430

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2010

Synopsis

No one has done more to shape our view of what makes us human than Charles Darwin, whose seismic theory of evolution turned the Victorian world upside down, utterly rewrote our notions of life on earth and is still attacked by religious creationists today.

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About the Author:

Charles Darwin, a Victorian scientist and naturalist, has become one of the most famous figures of science to date. Born in 1809 to an upper-middle-class medical family, he was destined for a career in either medicine or the Anglican Church. However, he never completed his medical education and his future changed entirely in 1831 when he joined HMS Beagle as a self-financing, independent naturalist. On returning to England in 1836 he began to write up his theories and observations which culminated in a series of books, most famously On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859, where he challenged and contradicted contemporary biological and religious beliefs with two decades worth of scientific investigation and theory. Darwin's theory of natural selection is now the most widely accepted scientific model of how species evolve. He died in 1882 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0141399430
• ISBN 13: 9780141399430
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 118