Easily the most influential book published in the nineteenth
century, Darwin’s The Origin of Species is also that most
unusual phenomenon, an altogether readable discussion of a
scientific subject. On its appearance in 1859 it was immediately
recognized by enthusiasts and detractors alike as a work of the
greatest importance: the revolutionary theory of evolution by means
of natural selection that it presented provoked a furious reaction
that continues to this day.
The Origin of Species is here published together with
Darwin’s earlier Voyage of the ‘Beagle’. This 1839 account
of the journeys to South America and the Pacific islands that first
put Darwin on the track of his remarkable theories derives an added
charm from his vivid description of his travels in exotic places
and his eye for the piquant detail.
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