Darwin On The Origin Of Species

Darwin, Charles: On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life, New York D. Appleton and Company 1872
One fold-out diagram. "When on board H.M.S. "Beagle," as a naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species - that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers." Darwin collected his hypotheses in 1842, and expanded on them in 1844, but kept them to himself until 1858, when he was encouraged by his colleagues, and a similar conclusion drawn in a paper written by Wallace, to go public; the first edition of Origin of Species was published in 1859. Darwin concludes: "There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, while this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."

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[Wilberforce]: THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, Volume 108, numbers 215 and 216, July & October, 1860. (Contains book review of ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION; OR, THE PRESERVATION OF FAVOURED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE by Charles Darwin) London John Murray 1860 ; fester Einband / hard cover
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THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, Volume 108, numbers 215 and 216, July & October, 1860. (Contains book review of ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION; OR, THE PRESERVATION OF FAVOURED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE by Charles Darwin); London: John Murray, 1860. Hardcover, half leather on marbled boards. The Quarterly review for July & October, 1860, numbers 215 and 216. This is the volume that contains the Bishop Wilberforce review of Charles Darwin"s book "ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION; OR, THE PRESERVATION OF FAVOURED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE". Title shortened to Origin of Species for later editions. The book was one of the most important and far reaching scientific publications of the nineteenth century and the review by Wilberforce, aided by Sir Richard Owen, itself has generated criticism and much comment and report up to the present time. Book in Very Good condition. Hinges sound. Leather spine not chipped or scuffed, slight rubs to board edges, some spotting to prelims and rear pages. Internally tight and clean. Very scarce and important issue. Half-Leather 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Michael,Keller: Charles Darwin's on the Origin of Species A Graphic Adaptation, Macmillan USA, November 2009 ISBN: 160529697X
A stunning graphic adaptation of one of the most famous, contested, and important books of all time.Few books have been as controversial or as historically significant as Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Since the moment it was released on November 24, 1859, Darwin's masterwork has been heralded for changing the course of science and condemned for its implied challenges to religion. In Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, author Michael Keller and illustator Nicolle Rager Fuller introduce a new generation of readers to the original text. Including sections about his pioneering research, the book's initial public reception, his correspondence with other leading scientists, as well as the most recent breakthroughs in evolutionary theory, this riveting, beautifully rendered adaptation breathes new life into Darwin's seminal and still polarizing work.

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Brookes, Martin. Extreme Measures: The Dark Visions and Bright Ideas of Francis Galton (RACE, HEREDITY, EUGENICS, IQ, PSYCHOLOGY, GENETICS, RACISM NAZI HITLER MENTAL DISORDER ILLNESS DIAGNOSIS TREATMENT CLINICAL BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY SCHIZOPHRENIA DEPR. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2004. ; fester Einband / hard cover
1582344817, 298 pp -- -- Choose us, for the information you need -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: -- Acknowledgements ix * Prologue: Dead on Arrival xi * 1 Lunar Orbit 1 * 2 Boy Wonder 17 * 3 Growing Pains 34 * 4 Wilderness Years 52 * 5 The Great Trek 66 * 6 A Compendium for Crusoe 103 * 7 Storm Warnings 126 * 8 Extreme States 141 * 9 On the Origin of Specious 153 * 10 Rabbit Stew 170 * 11 Question Time 183 * 12 Vital Statistics 205 * 13 The Gravity of Numbers 222 * 14 Tips on Fingers 242 * 15 Home Improvements 259 * Epilogue: Birmingham's Forgotten Son 292. -- DESCRIPTION: -- His measuring mind left its mark all over the scientific landscape. Explorer, inventor, meteorologist, psychologist, anthropologist and statistician, Galton was one of the great Victorian polymaths. But it was in the fledgling field of genetics that he made his most indelible impression. Galton kick-started the enduring nature/nurture debate, and took hereditary determinism to its darkest extreme. Consumed by his eugenic vision, he dreamed of a future society built on a race of pure-breeding supermen. Plagued by illness and poor mental health, Galton often let his obsessions run away with him. He turned teamaking into a theoretical science, counted the brushstrokes on his portrait, and created a beauty map of the British Isles, ranking its cities on the basis of their feminine allure. Through the story of Galton's colorful life, Martin Brookes examines his scientific legacy and takes us on a fascinating journey to the origins of modern human genetics. SYNOPSIS: -- Galton dropped out of Cambridge and became an African adventurer and an inventor of devices and concepts both useful (weather maps and fingerprinting) and hair-brained (underwater reading glasses). He is best known, however, as the man who coined the word "eugenics." He used his obsession with measurement (and some of the material in his cousin Darwin's The Origin of the Species) to claim that all traits, especially intelligence, were completely hereditary. Being a Victorian eccentric, he elevated this theory to the idea that the world needed to shape a super-race. Galton, who kept his own mental illness hidden behind a mask of snobbery, sexism, and racism, succeeded in convincing powerful people that the practice of eugenics was necessary to avoid the disintegration of the human race. Although he lived long enough to see airplanes fly, he never knew the consequences of his influence. This volume includes photographs but neither references nor an index. - Book News -- Publishers Weekly: -- Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911), a cousin of Charles Darwin, once famously made a beauty map of Britain, counting the number of attractive women he saw in each city (London was number one). This eccentric Victorian snob is one of the greatest forgotten scientists: he invented modern statistics, coined the phrase "nature versus nurture" and popularized fingerprinting as a means of tracking criminals. He did all this in the name of his brainchild, eugenics. Galton was "preoccupied with distinctions of race, class and social status" and saw natural selection as a "prescription for human progress" and a "path to biological excellence." Author and biologist Brookes (Fly: The Unsung Hero of Twentieth-Century Science) writes with understanding but unsympathetic wit of Galton's racist ideas, laying bare his shocking cruelty toward his fellow man, which he tried to hide behind Victorian respectability. Though the book is a little slow in early chapters about Galton's youth, the history of his scientific career is worth persevering, for Brookes explores the mind of this polymath, illuminating how one man could both innovate modern genetics' most useful tools and completely misinterpret the results. Galton deserves his moment in the sun, and Brookes, with his respect for Galton's achievements and condemnation for his conclusions, is the right biographer to explain this controversial man. -- Kirkus Reviews: -- Biologist Brookes (Fly, 2001, etc.) pens a popular life of Darwin's cousin, the inventor of eugenics. The youngest child of a Quaker banker, and the grandson of Erasmus Darwin, Francis Galton (1822-1911) came from a family with strong claims to scientific eminence. At age four, he could read anything in English, knew the rudiments of Latin and French, and had made a solid start on mathematics. At his father's urging he began medical studies before entering Cambridge to read mathematics. Independently wealthy after his father's death, he mounted an expedition into southwest Africa, exploring hostile desert country without a single life lost. He returned home to honors from the Royal Geographic Society, wrote the bestselling Art of Travel, and married Louisa Butler, daughter of an eminent intellectual family. Now his long interest in mathematics and statistics re-emerged. He invented the weather map as we know it today and discovered the anti-cyclone weather pattern. Darwin's Origin of Species convinced him that the human race might be improved in the same way as breeds of domestic animals, by encouraging only the best specimens to breed. The author shows how Galton's idee fixe, despite initial resistance from his scientific peers, became by the end of his life a widely accepted scheme for the betterment of society. Galton's own snobbism, along with the racism and chauvinism of his era, was undoubtedly a major ingredient in his advocacy of eugenics, which came to serve as justification for unspeakable evils. At the same time, Brookes points out, his focus on genetic determinism laid the ground for the modern science of genetics, which may eventually have a greater positive impact on theworld than anything Galton claimed eugenics could achieve. A clear-eyed look at a fascinating man who left an unmistakable-if mixed-stamp upon the world we live in. -Robert Gottlieb/Trident Media Group.
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