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The Portable Darwin

1993 Released
592 Pages
9-13 Hours
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Penguin Publishing GroupISBN 9780140151091

"Deserves to be as widely read as were the originals when they were first published."--Biological Journal of the Linneas Society. Includes five chapters from The Origin of Speices, complete and unabridged; significant extracts from the works that precede and develop the theory of evolution: The Voyage of the Beagle, The Descent of Man, and The Variations of Animals and Plants; scientific papers, travel writings, letters, and a family memorial; plus a chronology and biography.

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin (1809–19 April 1882) is considered the most important English naturalist of all time. He established the theories of natural selection and evolution. His theory of evolution was published as On the Origin of Species in 1859, and by the 1870s is was widely accepted as fact.

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