On the Origin of Species

by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

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First edition

London: John Murray, 1859. / First edition of what Horblit called “the most influential scientific work of the nineteenth century” and what Freeman called “the most important biological work ever written.” Written after Wallace’s Ternate manuscript reached Down in June 1858, Darwin set aside his triple-volume treatise and produced in thirteen months the most concentrated scientific argument of the nineteenth century. Murray

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