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on December 27, 1831, The Young Naturalist Charles Darwin Left Plymouth Harbor Aboard The Hms Beagle. For The Next Five Years, He Conducted Research On Plants And Animals From Around The Globe, Amassing A Body Of Evidence That Would Culminate In One Of The Greatest Discoveries In The History Of Mankind—the Theory Of Evolution.
darwin Presented His Stunning Insights In A Landmark Book That Forever Altered The Way Human Beings View Themselves And The World They Live In. In the Origin Of Species, He Convincingly Demonstrates The Fact Of Evolution: That Existing Animals And Plants Cannot Have Appeared Separately But Must Have Slowly Transformed From Ancestral Creatures. Most Important, The Book Fully Explains The Mechanism That Effects Such A Transformation: Natural Selection, The Idea That Made Evolution Scientifically Intelligible For The First Time.
one Of The Few Revolutionary Works Of Science That Is Engrossingly Readable, the Origin Of Species Not Only Launched The Science Of Modern Biology But Also Has Influenced Virtually All Subsequent Literary, Philosophical, And Religious Thinking.
george Levine, Kenneth Burke Professor Of English Literature At Rutgers University, Has Written Extensively About Darwin And The Relation Of Science And Literature, Particularly In Darwin And The Novelists. He Is The Author Of Many Related Books, Including the Realistic Imagination, Dying To Know, And His Birdwatching Memoirs, lifebirds.
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- Science & Math
- History & Philosophy
Publisher : Sterling Publishing
Author : Darwin, Charles
Language : English
Edition : Illustrated
Published :2003-12-15
Number Of Pages : 446
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 1593080778
ISBN-13 : 9781593080778
Item weight : 0.85 lb
Dimensions : 1.4 in x 5.2 in x 8 in
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