The origin of species ; and, The voyage of the Beagle / Charles Darwin ; with an introduction by Richard Dawkins.
By: Darwin, Charles.
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BookSeries: Everyman's library ; 258.Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c2003Description: xlv, 972 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 1400041279 (hc. : alk. paper).Contained works: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. Voyage of the Beagle.Subject(s): Beagle Expedition (1831-1836) | Beagle Expedition (1831-1836) | Evolution (Biology) | Natural selection | Natural history | Geology | Voyages around the world | Evolution | Natural selection | Natural history | Geology | Voyages around the world | South America -- Description and travel | South America -- Description and TravelDDC classification: 576.8/2 Reprint of 2 works: First work originally published: On the origin of the species by means of natural selection. London : J. Murray, 1859; 2nd work originally published: Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle. London : H. Colburn, 1839.
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxii-xxxiii) and indexes.
The origin of species -- The voyage of the Beagle.
Presents Charles Darwin's classic in which he argues that species change over time, evolving or dying out entirely, through the process of natural selection; and his journals from his five-year voyage around the world on the "H.M.S. Beagle," in which he recorded his observations on geology and natural history.
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