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On the Origin of Species (06 Edition)
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On the Origin of Species (06 Edition)
by Darwin

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Familiarity with Charles Darwin's treatise on evolution is essential to every well-educated individual. One of the most important books ever published--and a continuing source of controversy, a century and a half later--this classic of science is...
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The Descent of Man
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The Descent of Man
by Charles Darwin

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The most accessible edition ever published of Darwinas incendiary classic, edited by aas fine a science essayist as we havea (New York Times) The Descent of Man, Darwinas second landmark work on evolutionary theory (following The Origin of the Species...
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Discoveries: Darwin and the Science of Evolution (Discoveries)
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Discoveries: Darwin and the Science of Evolution (Discoveries)
by Patrick Tort

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Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed...
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Darwin's Origin of Species: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)
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Darwin's Origin of Species: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)
by Janet Browne

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Charles Darwin’s foremost biographer, Janet Browne, delivers a vivid and accessible introduction to the book that permanently altered our understanding of what it is to be human.  A sensation on its publication in 1859, The Origin of the...
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The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution (Great Discoveries)
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The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution (Great Discoveries)
by David Quammen

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"Quammen brilliantly and powerfully re-creates the 19th century naturalist's intellectual and spiritual journey."—Los Angeles Times Book Review Twenty-one years passed between Charles Darwin's epiphany that "natural selection" formed the basis of...
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Evolution's Captain: The Story of the Kidnapping That Led to Charles Darwin's Voyage aboard the Beagle
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Evolution's Captain: The Story of the Kidnapping That Led to Charles Darwin's Voyage aboard the Beagle
by Peter Nichols

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This is the story of the man without whom the name Charles Darwin might be unknown to us today. That man was Captain Robert FitzRoy, who invited the 22-year-old Darwin to be his companion on board the Beagle . This is the remarkable story of how a...
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Origin of Species (93 Edition)
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Origin of Species (93 Edition)
by Charles Darwin

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Charles Darwin's the Origin of Species is one of the landmark works that has helped shape the modern world. Darwin's five-year voyage on HMS Beagle sparked the ideas that he molded into his revolutionary argument for the material origin of the diversity...
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Origin of Species
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Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin

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The Origin of Species sold out on the first day of its publication in 1859. It is the major book of the nineteenth century, and one of the most readable and accessible of the great revolutionary works of the scientific imagination. The Origin of Species...
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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life (Penguin Classics)
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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Darwin

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In the Origin of Species (1859) 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'. Development...
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The Voyage of the Beagle: Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countriesvisited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle (Modern Library Classics)
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The Voyage of the Beagle: Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countriesvisited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle (Modern Library Classics)
by Charles Darwin

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In 1831, Charles Darwin embarked on an expedition that, in his own words, determined my whole career. The Voyage of the Beagle chronicles his five-year journey around the world and especially the coastal waters of South America as a naturalist on the H.M....
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From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books
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From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books
by Charles Darwin

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A gorgeous gift and a landmark work that is an essential addition to everyone's personal library. Never before have the four great works of Charles Darwin--Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle (1845), The Origin of Species (1859), The Descent of Man (1871), and...
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Charles Darwin: The Naturalist Who Started a Scientific Revolution
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Charles Darwin: The Naturalist Who Started a Scientific Revolution
by Cyril Aydon

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Engaging and accessible, historically accurate and admirably lucid in its scientific exposition, Cyril Aydon's life of the man who fathered the theory of evolution examines Darwin's personal quests and illuminates his revolutionary achievements. It...
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The Origin of Species (Great Minds Series)
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The Origin of Species (Great Minds Series)
by Charles Darwin

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In the Origin of Species (1859) 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'. Development...
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Very Short Introductions #35: Darwin: A Very Short Introduction
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Very Short Introductions #35: Darwin: A Very Short Introduction
by Jonathan Howard

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Darwin's theory that man's ancestors were apes caused an uproar within the scientific world, as well as public frenzy when The Origin of Species was published in 1859. Arguments still rage about the implications of his evolutionary theory, and skepticism...
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Darwin and the Barnacle: The Story of One Tiny Creature and History's Most Spectacular Scientific Breakthrough
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Darwin and the Barnacle: The Story of One Tiny Creature and History's Most Spectacular Scientific Breakthrough
by Rebecca Stott

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PAIRING CHARLES DARWIN and a rare species of barnacle as her unlikely protagonists, Rebecca Stott has written an absorbing work of history that guides readers through the treacherous shoals of nineteenth-century biology. Beginning her scientific...
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Darwin
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Darwin
by Niles Eldredge

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A riveting tribute to Charles Darwin's life and ideas in celebration of his 200th birthday. Charles Darwin's ideas resonate deeply in Western culture today, and his theory still lies at the heart of modern scientific evolutionary research. As other...
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A Brief Guide to Charles Darwin: His Life and Times (Brief Guide To...)
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A Brief Guide to Charles Darwin: His Life and Times (Brief Guide To...)
by Cyril Aydon

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Charles Darwin has become one of the most important men in history. The quiet, unsure polymath who avoided confrontation, ensconced in his family home at Downe House in Kent, was also a revolutionary who developed his idea of Natural Selection in...
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Darwin: The Indelible Stamp: The Evolution of an Idea
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Darwin: The Indelible Stamp: The Evolution of an Idea
by Charles (edt) Darwin

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These are the collected works of Charles Darwin, the man whose ideas shocked the 19th-century world-and whose works are still considered shocking by some today. Full reprints of On the Origin of Species, The Voyage of the Beagle, The Expression of the...
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Evolution's Captain: The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World
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Evolution's Captain: The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World
by Peter Nichols

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-336)....
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Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks
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Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks
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Charles Darwin was a bumbling neophyte naturalist when he boarded the Beagle in 1831. Through the five years that followed, as the ship hugged the coastline of South America, Darwin found himself wading through waist-deep mud, climbing towerlike trees...
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