{"product_id":"the-origin-of-species-by-means-of-natural-selection-or-the-preservation-of-favoured-races-in-the-struggle-for-life-paperback-9781108005487","title":"The Origin of Species; By Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108005487","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Origin of Species\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBy Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe sixth edition of The Origin of Species, and the last to be revised by Darwin himself.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCharles Darwin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108005487, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 20 July 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e492 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.8 cm, 0.62 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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...'\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAdditions and corrections to the sixth edition\u003cbr\u003e Historical sketch\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Variation under domestication\u003cbr\u003e 2. Variation under nature\u003cbr\u003e 3. Struggle for existence\u003cbr\u003e 4. Natural selection, or the survival of the fittest\u003cbr\u003e 5. Laws of variation\u003cbr\u003e 6. Difficulties of the theory\u003cbr\u003e 7. Miscellaneous objections to the theory of natural selection\u003cbr\u003e 8. Instinct\u003cbr\u003e 9. Hybridism\u003cbr\u003e 10. On the imperfection of the geological record\u003cbr\u003e 11. On the geological succession of organic beings\u003cbr\u003e 12. Geographical distribution\u003cbr\u003e 13. Geographical distribution continued\u003cbr\u003e 14. Mutual affinities of organic beings, morphology, embryology, rudimentary organs\u003cbr\u003e 15. Recapitulation and conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Glossary of scientific terms\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Evolution [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Evolution\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Evolution%20%5BPSAJ%5D%22\"\u003ePSAJ\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45978352714008,"sku":"9781108005487","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108005487i.jpg?v=1694867265","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-origin-of-species-by-means-of-natural-selection-or-the-preservation-of-favoured-races-in-the-struggle-for-life-paperback-9781108005487","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}