The Origin of Species: by Means of Natural Selection (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781495244476)

On the Origin of Species, published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Its full title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. It presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution. Darwin included evidence that he had gathered on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s and his subsequent findings from research, correspondence, and experimentation. Various evolutionary ideas had already been proposed to explain new findings in biology. Ideas about the transmutation of species were controversial as they conflicted with the beliefs that species were unchanging parts of a designed hierarchy and that humans were unique, unrelated to other animals. The political and theological implications were intensely debated, but transmutation was not accepted by the scientific mainstream.

Author: Charles Darwin
ISBN-10: 1495244474
ISBN-13: 9781495244476
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 01/18/2014
Pages: 386
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d