On the Origin of Species

by Darwin, Charles; Carroll, Joseph

• ISBN13: 9781551113371
• ISBN10: 1551113376
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Broadview Pr

Summary

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, in which he writes of his theories of evolution by natural selection, is one of the most important works of scientific study ever published.This unabridged edition also includes a rich selection of primary source material: substantial selections from Darwin's other works (Autobiography, notebooks, letters, Voyage of the Beagle, and The Descent of Man) and selections from Darwin's sources and contemporaries (excerpts from Genesis, Paley, Lamarck, Spencer, Lyell, Malthus, Huxley, and Wallace).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	7	(2)
Introduction
1. The Classic Status of The Origin of Species	9	(1)
2. Plan of the Introduction	10	(1)
3. Darwin's Subject	10	(7)
4. The Historical Moment of The Origin of Species	17	(7)
5. Darwin's Intellectual Character	24	(4)
6. The Lamarckian and Spencerfan Alternative to Darwinism	28	(7)
7. The Inception and Gestation of Darwin's Theory	35	(16)
8. Darwin's Evolutionary Psychology	51	(3)
9. The Nature of the Darwinian Revolution	54	(7)
10. Recommendations for Further Reading	61	(5)
11. Works Cited and Source Texts	66	(7)
Charles Darwin: A Brief Chronology	73	(3)
A Note on the Text	76	(1)
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection	77	(348)
An Historical Sketch of the Progress of Opinion on the Origin of Species	79	(12)
Contents	91	(4)
Text	95	(304)
Glossary of the Principal Scientific Terms Used in the Present Volume	399	(13)
Index	412	(13)
Appendix A: From The Autobiography of Charles Darwin	425	(20)
Appendix B: From Voyage of the Beagle: Excerpts from Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle (1839; 2nd ed. 1845)	445	(20)
Appendix C: From Darwin's Notebooks	465	(4)
Appendix D: From the 1844 Manuscript	469	(6)
1. Francis Darwin's Description of the Manuscript	469	(2)
2. Extract from a Chapter on Natural Selection	471	(4)
Appendix E: Letters	475	(20)
Appendix F: From The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871)	495	(67)
Appendix G: Contextual Materials	562	(68)
1. Creationism and Natural Theology	562	(11)
i. The First Book of Moses called GENESIS	562	(3)
ii. William Paley, from Natural Theology; or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, collected from the appearances of nature (1802)	565	(8)
2. Pre-Darwinian Speculations on Evolution: Lamarck and Spencer	573	(22)
i. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, from Zoological Philosophy (1809)	573	(7)
ii. Herbert Spencer	580	(39)
a. From Social Statics (1851)	580	(9)
b. From First Principles (1862)	589	(2)
c. From Principles of Biology (1864), vol. 1, part 3, chapter 12	591	(1)
d. From Autobiography (1904)	592	(3)
3. Thomas Malthus, from An Essay on the Principle of Population (6th ed., 1826)	595	(10)
4. Charles Lyell, from Principles of Geology (1830-33)	605	(5)
5. The Co-Discovery of Natural Selection: Alfred Russel Wallace, "On the Tendency of harieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type" (1858)	610	(9)
6. Thomas Henry Huxley on the Historical Situation of The Origin of Species	619	(11)
i. From "Evolution in Biology" (1878)	619	(1)
ii. From The Origin of Species (1860)	619	(2)
iii. From "Criticisms on The Origin of Species" (1864)	621	(2)
iv. From "Charles Darwin" (1882)	623	(1)
v. From "On the Reception of The Origin of Species" (1887)	624	(6)
Register of Names	630	(26)
Index to the Introduction, Darwin's Historical Sketch, and the Appendices	656