The Development of Darwin's Theory
Subtitle: Natural History, Natural Theology, and Natural Selection, 18381859
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 28, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780521469401
Subjects: Evolution; History of science; c 1800 to c 1900; Organic Evolution; Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Life Sciences - Evolution; Science / Evolution; Science-Life Sciences - Biology - General
First sentence: When he left England on H.M.S. Beagle in 1831, Darwin believed, with most of his contemporaries, that each species has been independently created with characteristics that suit it admirably for the conditions under which it is destined to live.