On the Origin of Species

by Darwin, Charles; Beer, Gillian

• ISBN13: 9780199219223
• ISBN10: 0199219222
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In The Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply-held beliefs of the Western world. Arguing for a material, not divine, origin of species, he showed that new species are achieved by "natural selection." The Origin communicates the enthusiasm of original thinking in anopen, descriptive style, and Darwin's emphasis on the value of diversity speaks more strongly now than ever. As well as a stimulating introduction and detailed notes, this edition offers a register of the many writers referred to by Darwin in the text.

Author Biography

Dame Gillian Beer is Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. Her Darwin's Plots (1983; second edition 2000) was followed by Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter (1996). More recently she has been working on Carroll's Alice books in the context of nineteenth-century intellectual controversies and a new collection of her essays on literature and science is scheduled for 2008.

Table of Contents

A Chronology of Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species	p. 1
Register of Writers	p. 361
Glossary of Scientific Terms	p. 371
Index	p. 385
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