The Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life / Edition 6

by Charles Darwin

Overview

This sixth edition of The Origin of Species was published in 1876. It is the last edition on which Darwin himself worked before his death in 1882, and offers a useful complement to the 2009 scholarly edition, edited by Jim Endersby and published by Cambridge University Press in Darwin's bicentennial year. The sixth edition contains a 'historical sketch' in which Darwin reviews the many works by eminent European and American scientists – beginning with Lamarck in 1801 – in which ideas of evolutionary species change and of natural selection were touched on but not developed. This edition, like all from the second onwards, contains the words 'by the Creator', controversially added to the famous last sentence in the book: 'There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one...'

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108005487
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/20/2009
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Darwin, Evolution and Genetics
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	492
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Date of Birth:

February 12, 1809

Date of Death:

April 19, 1882

Place of Birth:

Shrewsbury, England

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

B.A. in Theology, Christ¿s College, Cambridge University, 1831

Table of Contents

Additions and corrections to the sixth edition; Historical sketch; Introduction; 1. Variation under domestication; 2. Variation under nature; 3. Struggle for existence; 4. Natural selection, or the survival of the fittest; 5. Laws of variation; 6. Difficulties of the theory; 7. Miscellaneous objections to the theory of natural selection; 8. Instinct; 9. Hybridism; 10. On the imperfection of the geological record; 11. On the geological succession of organic beings; 12. Geographical distribution; 13. Geographical distribution continued; 14. Mutual affinities of organic beings, morphology, embryology, rudimentary organs; 15. Recapitulation and conclusion; Glossary of scientific terms; Index.