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Author : Thomas Henry Huxley
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368341824
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Author : Thomas Henry Huxley
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1494787989
To the present generation, that is to say, the people a few years on the hither and thither side of thirty, the name of Charles Darwin stands alongside of those of Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday; and, like them, calls up the grand ideal of a searcher after truth and interpreter of Nature. They think of him who bore it as a rare combination of genius, industry, and unswerving veracity, who earned his place among the most famous men of the age by sheer native power, in the teeth of a gale of popular prejudice, and uncheered by a sign of favour or appreciation from the official fountains of honour; as one who in spite of an acute sensitiveness to praise and blame, and notwithstanding provocations which might have excused any outbreak, kept himself clear of all envy, hatred, and malice, nor dealt otherwise than fairly and justly with the unfairness and injustice which was showered upon him; while, to the end of his days, he was ready to listen with patience and respect to the most insignificant of reasonable objectors.
Author : Thomas Henry Huxley
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547138051
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "On the Reception of the 'Origin of Species'" by Thomas Henry Huxley. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Janet Browne
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780857897145
No book has changed our understanding of ourselves more than Darwin's Origin of Species. It caused a sensation on its first day of publication in 1859 and went on to become an international bestseller. The idea that living things gradually evolve through natural selection profoundly shocked its Victorian readers, calling into question what had been for many the unshakeable belief that there was a Creator. In this book, Janet Browne, Charles Darwin's foremost biographer, shows why Darwin's Origin of Species can fairly claim to be the greatest science book ever published. She describes the genesis of Darwin's theories, explains how they were initially received and examines why they remain so contentious today. Her book is a marvellously readable account of the work that altered forever our knowledge of what it is to be human.
Author : David Amigoni
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0719040256
This volume marks a new approach to a seminal work of the new modern scientific imagination. Darwin's central theory of natural selection neither originated nor could be contained within the natural sciences, but continues to shape and challenge our most basic assumptions about human social and political life. Seven readings, crossing the fields of history, literature, sociology, anthropology and the history of science, demonstate the complex position of the text within the cultural debates past and present.
Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783736804760
The Origin of Species is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. It presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution. Darwin included evidence that he had gathered on the Beagle expedition in the and his subsequent findings from research, correspondence, and experimentation. Darwin's aims were twofold: to show that species had not been separately created, and to show that natural selection had been the chief agent of change.
Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Evolution
ISBN : UVA:X006136857
First published in 1859, this landmark book on evolutionary biology was not the first to deal with the subject, but it went on to become a sensation—and a controversial one for many religious people who could not reconcile Darwin’s science with their faith. Darwin worked on the book for over 20 years before its publication. The radical crux of his scientific theory was the idea of natural selection, which meant that chance, not a divine Creator, played a great role in humanity's advancement and that individuals who weren't physically able to adapt with the greater populace died off.
Author : Darwin, Charles
Publisher : Aegitas
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781773137339
On the Origin of Species (or more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life), published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. It presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution. Darwin included evidence that he had gathered on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s and his subsequent findings from research, correspondence, and experimentation.
Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783849653385
‘On the Origin of Species’ is the great work of Darwin’s life. The whole first edition of 1250 copies was exhausted on the day of issue. The first four chapters explain the operation of artificial selection by man and of natural selection in consequence of the struggle for existence. The fifth chapter deals with the laws of variation and causes of modification other than natural selection. The five succeeding chapters consider difficulties in the way of a belief in evolution generally as well as in natural selection. The three remaining chapters (omitting the recapitulation which occupies the last) deal with the evidence for evolution. The theory which suggested a cause of evolution is thus given the foremost place, and the evidence for the existence of evolution considered last of all.
Author : Eve-Marie Engels
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826458339
Beyond this pivotal place in the history of scientific thought, Charles Darwin's writings and his theory of evolution by natural selection have also had a profound impact on art and culture and continue to do so to this day. This book is a comprehensive survey of this enduring cultural impact throughout the continent. With chapters written by leading international scholars that explore how literary writers and popular culture responded to Darwin's thought, the book also includes a complete timeline of his cultural reception in Europe and bibliographies of major translations in each country.
Author : Thomas Henry Huxley
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664599209
"On the Reception of the 'Origin of Species'" by Thomas Henry Huxley is a compelling essay that reflects on the societal response to Charles Darwin's groundbreaking work. Huxley's insightful observations and passionate defense of Darwin's theories demonstrate his pivotal role in promoting the acceptance of evolutionary concepts. This ebook is a fascinating exploration of the history of science and the impact of revolutionary ideas on society.
Author : Donald Forsdyke
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 077352259X
Major inconsistencies in Darwin's theory of the origin of species by natural selection remained unresolved for over a century until the results of recent research in various genome projects led to the theory's reinterpretation. Reviewing this new information, Donald Forsdyke, a laboratory scientist involved in genome research, wondered whether similar discoveries could have been made a century earlier, by one of Darwin's contemporaries. The Origin of Species Revisited describes his investigation into the history of evolutionary biology and its startling conclusion. The trail led first to Joseph Hooker and Thomas Huxley, who had been both the theory's strongest supporters and its most penetrating critics, and eventually to the Victorian George Romanes and Darwin's young research associate William Bateson. Although these men were well-known, their resolution of the origin of species paradox has either been ignored (Romanes), or ignored and reviled (Bateson). Four years after Darwin's death, Romanes published a theory of the origin of species by means of "physiological selection" that resolved the inconsistencies in Darwin's theory and introduced the idea of a "peculiarity" of the reproductive system that allowed selective fertility between "physiological complements." Forsdyke argues that the chemical basis of the origin of species by physiological selection is actually the species-dependent component of the base composition of DNA, showing that Romanes thus anticipated modern biochemistry. Using this new perspective Forsdyke considers some of the outstanding problems in biology and medicine, including the question of how "self" is distinguished from "not-self" by members of different species. Finally he examines the political and ideological forces that led to Romanes' contribution to evolutionary biology remaining unappreciated until now.
Author : Michael Keller
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-27
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781605299488
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 Favored 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 illustrator 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.
Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : Collector's Library
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1904633781
Charles Darwin challenged many of the most deeply-held beliefs of the western world. Arguing for a material, not divine, origin of species, he showed that new species are achieved by 'natural selection'.
Author : Keith A. Francis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781573567947
In 1859, an amateur British naturalist published a book of findings that shook the scientific community to its core and changed the structure of religion and science as we know them. The product of over 20 years of research, The Origin of Species challenged the popular belief that species could not evolve and argued that species can adapt to their environment and develop accordingly. Although other scientists had observed some of the phenomena that Charles Darwin addressed, he was the first to theorize that natural selection, and later, evolution, were viable explanations for the origins of life. The implications of Darwin's findings still reverberate today, in the classroom, in the courtroom, and at the highest legislative levels. Lively thematic chapters explore how Darwin came to the conclusions published in The Origin of Species—and in later works such as The Descent of Man—from his early years at Cambridge, to his observations of species on the HMS Beagle voyages, through the 20 years of research that culminated in Origin. Also included is an insightful discussion of Darwin's impact as it is felt today, from movies and popular culture to the current Intelligent Design controversy. Biographies of influential figures, primary source letters and selections from Origin, a glossary of terms, and an extensive annotated bibliography round out this accessible work.
