The origin of species : by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life
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The origin of species : by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life
（Cambridge library collection, . Darwin）
Cambridge University Press, 2009
- : pbk
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"This digitally printed version 2009"--T.p. verso
Reprint. Originally published: 6th ed., with additions and corrections to 1872. London : J. Murray, 1876
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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...'
Table of Contents
- Additions and corrections to the sixth edition
- Historical sketch
- Introduction
- 1. Variation under domestication
- 2. Variation under nature
- 3. Struggle for existence
- 4. Natural selection, or the survival of the fittest
- 5. Laws of variation
- 6. Difficulties of the theory
- 7. Miscellaneous objections to the theory of natural selection
- 8. Instinct
- 9. Hybridism
- 10. On the imperfection of the geological record
- 11. On the geological succession of organic beings
- 12. Geographical distribution
- 13. Geographical distribution continued
- 14. Mutual affinities of organic beings, morphology, embryology, rudimentary organs
- 15. Recapitulation and conclusion
- Glossary of scientific terms
- Index.
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