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Designed for use in a broad range of courses in the humanities, Darwin's theory is laid out in a concise general introduction and followed up in short chapter introductions. Each chapter concludes with an excerpt from Darwin's correspondence, commenting on the work in question, and its significance, impact, and reception. Two short appendixes are included - the first three chapters from Malthus, 'On Population', which gave Darwin the idea for natural selection and the paper by Wallace that motivated Darwin to abandon the "Big Species Book" and write "Origin of Species".
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| Journal of Researches | p. 1 |
| Darwin's Notebooks | p. 46 |
| Darwin and Lamarck: Marginalia | p. 82 |
| 1842 Sketch and 1844 Essay | p. 87 |
| A Monograph of the Sub-Class Cirripedia (1851) | p. 118 |
| Natural Selection: The Big Species Book (1856-1858) | p. 127 |
| Abstract of Darwin's Theory Sent to Asa Gray (1857) | p. 152 |
| On the Origin of Species (1859) | p. 156 |
| Variation of Plants and Animals Under Domestication (1868) | p. 216 |
| The Descent of Man (second edition, 1874) | p. 240 |
| Flowers and Adaptation | p. 278 |
| Autobiography | p. 307 |
| Selections from Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population | p. 323 |
| Alfred Russel Wallace: "On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type" (1858) | p. 335 |
| Darwin's Writings and General Bibliography | p. 346 |
| Indexes | p. 350 |
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ISBN: 9780872202856
ISBN-10: 0872202852
Series: HPC Classics Ser.
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 373
Published: 1st October 1996
Dimensions (cm): 23.0 x 15.2
x 2.0
Weight (kg): 0.51
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