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The Origin of Species :

(Number (ISBN

9780511694295 (ebook)

Number

b504372

Title Proper

The Origin of Species :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

By Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life /

First Statement of Responsibility

Charles Darwin.

Edition Statement

6th ed.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge :

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Place of publication not identified :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

publisher not identified,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1876.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (492 pages) :

Other Physical Details

digital, PDF file(s)

Series Title

Cambridge library collection. Darwin, Evolution and Genetics.

Text of Note

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)

Text of Note

This sixth edition of The Origin of Species was published in 1876. It is the last edition on which Darwin himself worked before his death in 1882, and offers a useful complement to the 2009 scholarly edition, edited by Jim Endersby and published by Cambridge University Press in Darwin's bicentennial year. The sixth edition contains a 'historical sketch' in which Darwin reviews the many works by eminent European and American scientists - beginning with Lamarck in 1801 - in which ideas of evolutionary species change and of natural selection were touched on but not developed. This edition, like all from the second onwards, contains the words 'by the Creator', controversially added to the famous last sentence in the book: 'There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one...'

Evolution (Biology)

Natural selection.

Darwin, Charles,1809-1882

Date of Transaction

20151005020623.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

rda

Electronic name

[Book]

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