The Origin of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (709 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0882709194 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 298 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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This is the sixth edition of the Origin of Species My four-star rating is more for this particular product than for the work of Darwin itself. Clearly Darwin's book is the cornerstone of modern biology, and I won't even pretend to try to rate its importance using one to five stars.However, I felt it was important to let people know that this is the *sixth* edition of the book. I ordered it thinking it was the first, although I admit I had no reason to believe that other than that it did not specify that it was any other edition. The main problem with later editions is that Darwin continuall. Caraleisa said Darwin, with intro by Huxley - is the REAL BOOK BEWARE the copy with intro by Comfort. The original book by Charles Darwin is a classic that should be on everyone's reading list. There are ample reviews here which address it, praise it, and I am completely in agreement with them. Darwin's Origin of Species is a true masterpiece.Unfortunately, this review is to help readers/buyers realize that there is a 'vandalized' version which has been published, and to tell you how to avoid it and get the real thing.To explain; there is yet another edition also called "The Origin of Species, 150th Anniversary Edition", put out by Christia. A Sham - Half the number of pages as the legitimate version, critical content omitted I have to admit, I'm astonished by the ease with which one can be fooled into thinking they've procured the full and legitimate content of Darwin's signature work. A couple of easy clues, though:Darwin refers in this version to a diagram in chapter IV, to illustrate "The Probable Effects of the Process of Natural Selection Through Divergence of Character and Extinction, On the Descendants of a Common Ancestor." This diagram is absent in this version, and this absence is what started me on the road to identifying this version as a fraud. I b
Great for collectors.. Darwin's complete unabridged work of evolution with special introduction by Ray Comfort
But it's true: this is indeed one of the most important and influential books ever written, and it is one of the very few groundbreaking works of science that is truly readable. It's hard to talk about The Origin of Species without making statements that seem overwrought and fulsome. Natural selection, variation, the struggle for existence, survival of the fittest: it's all in here. --Mary Ellen Curtin. It's hardly necessary to mention that the book is still controversial: Darwin's remark in his conclusion that "Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" is surely the pinnacle of British understatement. Darwin's friend and "bulldog" T.H. Huxley said upon reading the Origin, "How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that." Alfred Russel Wallace had thought of the same theory o