DARWIN, Charles.

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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Sixth edition, fifth issue. The sixth edition was the first to feature the word "evolution" - a term first used by Darwin in The Descent of Man (1871) - and was the last published in Darwin's lifetime. It also featured a chapter inserted to refute the Catholic zoologist St George Jackson Mivart and a glossary by the entomologist William Sweetland Dallas.Darwin continually made revisions to the Origin of Species. The sixth edition was first published in February 1872 and "was aimed at a wider public and printed in smaller type... giving the general impression of a cheap edition, which at 7s. 6d. it was" (Freeman). The first issue read "eleventh thousand" on the title page, noting the total issue of copies from the first edition of 1859 onwards.

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