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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Special Collections and Archives
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
| Description |
This unassuming looking little volume is the single most influential scientific work of the 19th century. Darwin’s first publication of his theory of evolution was written for non-specialists and it attracted widespread and immediate interest. Darwin was an eminent scientist; his findings were taken seriously and the evidence he presented generated scientific, philosophical, and religious discussion. Within two decades there was general scientific agreement that evolution, with a branching pattern of common descent, had occurred, but scientists were slow to give natural selection the significance that Darwin thought appropriate. With the development of the modern evolutionary synthesis in the 1930s and 1940s, Darwin's concept of evolutionary adaptation through natural selection became central to modern evolutionary theory, and it has now become the unifying concept of the life sciences. |
| Author/Photographer |
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 |
| Publisher |
London: John Murray |
| Date |
1859 |
| Extent |
ix, [1], 502, 32 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Institution |
Kent State University |
| Repository |
Special Collections and Archives |
| Provenance/Collection |
From the library of B. George Ulizio |
| LC Classification Number |
QH365 .O2 1859 |
| Portion Digitized |
Binding, image of the spine |
| Access Rights |
This digital object is owned by Kent State University and may be protected by U.S. Copyright law (Title 17, USC). Please include proper citation and credit for use of this item. Use in publications or productions is prohibited without written permission from Kent State University. Please contact the Department of Special Collections and Archives for more information. |
| Duplication Policy |
http://www.library.kent.edu/special-collections-and-archives/duplication-policy |
| DPLA Rights Statement |
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Format of Original |
book |
