On the Origin of Species

This is a great work and everyone should have a copy. That said, this version is constructed similar to a cheap bible. The pages are opaque making it hard to read at any duration.

Great Classic book good for my library...

Pues todo esta perfecto la verdad muy bonita edicion, segun yo es como la que venden en el museo britanico y me llego bastante rapido,como siempre lean este libro es un clasico y para que nos entendamos a nosotros como seres gumanos es perfecto además a mi me esta sirviendo para aprender ingles aca en usa,

Nice quality binding.Only the second edition. Darwin did at least four further editions. Should have read description closer.

This is a beautiful hardback facsimile edition of one of the most important books ever written, in which Darwin provided the answer to what had been called the “mystery of mysteries”, the origin of species. This edition is also great value.Darwin shows that “species are not immutable”; that all living creatures are linked by common descent; and that natural selection is the mechanism by which evolutionary change takes place.You do not have to be a scientific specialist to read the “Origin”, but I do feel that you can get more out of it if you have first read a modern introduction to evolution such as Ernst Mayr’s “What Evolution Is” or Jerry Coyne’s “Why Evolution Is True”.There were things that Darwin could not know 150 years ago: he knew nothing of modern genetics or the causes of variation; he mistakenly thought that the Lamarckian inheritance of acquired characteristics played a part in evolution; and later theorists such as Ernst Mayr have added to our understanding of how one species branches off from another in the speciation process.I must admit that there are sections (those on variation and hybridism, for example) that I found myself skimming. But, on the other hand, chapters such as those on the “Struggle for Existence” and “Natural Selection” drew me into reading every word.Stephen Jay Gould summed up Darwin by saying that he was conservative in his personal life, liberal in his political views (in his strong opposition to slavery for example), and radical in his scientific ideas. I’ll end with Darwin’s own succinct summary, from his Introduction, of the most important of these radical scientific ideas, his theory of natural selection:“As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form.”

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Good quality, nice silk bookmark inside also

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