Charles Darwin's Natural Selection
Subtitle: Being the Second Part of his Big Species Book Written from 1856 to 1858
Contributors: R. C. Stauffer (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 25, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 704
ISBN-13: 9780521348072
Subjects: Evolution; History of science; Natural Selection; Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Life Sciences - Evolution; Science / Evolution; Science-Life Sciences - Biology - General
First sentence: On October 8, 1856, Darwin wrote to his second cousin, W.D.Fox, that 'I...am now drawing up my work as perfect as my materials of nineteen years' collecting suffice, but do not intend to stop to perfect any line of investigation beyond current work...I find to my sorrow it will run to quite a big book.
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