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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The first thing that strikes us when we look at the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated plants and animals is that they differ much more from each other than do the individuals of any one species or variety in a state of nature. #2 The most common cause of variability is believed to be the male and female reproductive elements having...

“The Origin of Species” by Charles Darwin is the most important and influential book in the history of science. It offered for the first time, a convincing explanation for the development of the diversity of life. Content: Animal and plant species change through variation and natural selection.

English naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin first published On the Origin of Species in 1859. The idea of evolution and that all earth's species have descended from a common ancestor had already been around for some time. What was new about Darwin's work was that it found a way to explain evolution using a theory called natural selection. This claimed that species change in small ways, gradually, over long periods of time; the individuals who...

David N. Reznick is professor of biology at the University of California, Riverside. An accessible modern guide to Darwin's masterwork Charles Darwin's Origin of Species is one of the most widely cited books in modern science. Yet tackling this classic can be daunting for students and general readers alike because of Darwin's Victorian prose and the complexity and scope of his ideas. The "Origin" Then and Now is a unique guide to Darwin's masterwork,...