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1) The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

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This edition of Darwin's life story restores previously censored passages on religion and the scientist's opinions of his contemporaries. Darwin wrote his autobiography in 1876, at the age of sixty-seven, hoping it would prove interesting to his children and grandchildren. Preparing the book for a wider audience, his family initially sought to protect his legacy by removing passages they found too personal or controversial. This restored edition,...

2) The Foundations of the Origin of Species: Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844

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Darwin, Charles

3) The voyage of the Beagle

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Darwin, Charles

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Harvard classics volume 29
Everyman's library; travel and topography volume 104
Anchor Books
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Carrying the famous biologist Charles Darwin, the Beagle set sail from Plymouth Sound in December of 1831 and returned in October of 1836-completing its journey across the world. This journal kept by Charles Darwin contains his notes from the journey and his commentary on the discoveries that were made. It also includes illustrations of the wonders that they encountered and in-depth discussions about life on the sea.

4) The origin of species by means of natural selection, or, The preservation of favored races in the struggle for life

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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. Though, in fact, little read, most people know what it says—at least they think they do.

The Origin of Species was the first mature and persuasive work to explain how species change through the process of

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5) The descent of man

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Darwin, Charles

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Classics of World Literature

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In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species: finding in the traits and instincts of animals the origins of the mental abilities of humans, of language, of our social structures and our moral capacities, he attempts to show that there is no clear dividing line between animals and humans. Most importantly, he accounts for what Victorians called the 'races' of mankind by means of what he calls

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6) The voyage of the Beagle: journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world

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Darwin, Charles

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Modern Library Classics

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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.S. Beagle. While traveling through these unexplored countries collecting specimens, Darwin began to formulate the theories of evolution and natural selection realized in his master work, The...

7) The illustrated Origin of species

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Darwin, Charles

8) From so simple a beginning: the four great books of Charles Darwin

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Darwin, Charles

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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 The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals (1872)--been collected under one cover. Undertaking this challenging endeavor 123 years after Darwin's death, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward O. Wilson has written an introductory essay for the occasion, while providing new, insightful introductions...