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On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life [Kindle Edition]

Charles Darwin (Author)

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Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist who established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.

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Format: Kindle Edition
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Print Length: 282 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 145381468X
Publisher: Public Domain Books (1 Mar 1998)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.� r.l.
Language English
ASIN: B000JML90Y
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

Well worth a download. 5 Nov 2011

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A fantastic, detailed book discussing scientific theories in a very easy to read, civilian way. Diagrams would have been helpful but are not essential. Lots of interesting facts and ideas. Glad I downloaded it - it's one of those books that you make reference to without ever reading. The Kindle Top 100 Free list is very good for reading those sorts of books!

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Just to note that this appears to be a copy of the first edition of The Origin of Species, published by John Murray in 1859. Darwin apparently fiddled with later editions. So, it would seem that this is the edition to read.

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35 of 39 people found the following review helpful

fantastic 16 Sep 2010

By Richard Thomas

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fantastic book, a little hard to read at times due to the 19th century English used also lacks diagrams that are refereed to in great detail making it hard to follow some chapters

But all that been said a insightful read and the grandad of all evolution books

(edited date ooops typo) :)

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In considering the Origin of Species, it is quite conceivable that a naturalist, reflecting on the mutual affinities of organic beings, on their embryological relations, their geographical distribution, geological succession, and other such facts, might come to the conclusion that each species had not been independently created, but had descended, like varieties, from other species. &quote;

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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. &quote;

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I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species. Furthermore, I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification. &quote;

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