The Origin of Species
Publisher: eBooksLib
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ottawa
Language: eng
Format: eBook
ISBN-13: 9781412101011; 9781412160834; 9781412101028
Description: When on board H.M.S. 'Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species - that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it.