The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition Mass Market Author: Charles Darwin | Language: English | ISBN:
0451529065 | Format: EPUB
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''It is clear that here is one of the most important contributions ever made to philosophic science; and it is at least behooving on scientists, in the light of the accumulation of evidence which the author has summoned in support of his theory, to reconsider the grounds on which their present doctrine of the origin of species is based.'' --
New York Times ''Amazingly, 150 years after the publication of
The Origin of Species, Darwin's seminal work on the theory of evolution remains the authoritative tract on the subject.'' --
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About the Author
CHARLES DARWIN (1809-1882) was the first evolutionary biologist, best known for his controversial and groundbreaking
The Origin of Species. He introduced the concept of natural selection, marking a new epoch in the scientific world.
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- Mass Market Paperback: 576 pages
- Publisher: Signet Classics; Rep Anv edition (September 2, 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0451529065
- ISBN-13: 978-0451529060
- Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
I read this book after discussing "intelligent design" with someone. It had never has occurred to me that the theory and facts of evolution wouldn't be more compelling to someone than Bible myth that wasn't intended to teach science at all.
Darwin's writing style can be awkward. He is working with a lot of facts to try to discern some laws. It isn't easy material to begin with. After a long delay of collecting evidence and formulating ideas, he was in a hurry to publish and may have skipped a useful rewrite to increase readability. He is clearly not adverse to long sentences.
Nevertheless, he does present himself clearly and in an exemplary manner for a scientist. He packs his presentation with supportive facts. He presents tentative laws to explains what he observed and then sees how well this explain the data he had collected. He points out his assumptions, raises doubts about them and responds sincerely to those doubts.
As can be seen in this book, Charles Darwin was scientific, inquiring, open, honest, and genuinely concerned about advancing human knowledge about the natural world.
It is surprising, as Darwin explains, how much can be accounted for given sufficient time (millions of years, not 5000, as scientific dating methods show), given small variations within any single generation and given conditions of scarcity. Darwin recognized that what may be hardest of us to accept is that we can not see the cumulative changes that took those millions of years to occur. He does make an effort to explain why the fossil record has gaps for which intermediate forms of life are missing.
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