Book · 1859 · Nonfiction

On The Origin of Species

Name: On The Origin of Species
Author: Charles Darwin

Everyman's Library (Penguin Random House) · 972 pages

★ 9.2 editorial score

More creatures are born than can survive, they differ, and the useful differences carry forward. Darwin builds that one plain idea into an explanation of every living thing on earth.

Genre

Science

Subject

Evolution Natural selection

Time

1859

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Quote · 1859

“I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.”

Charles Darwin

Quote · 1859

“Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual of any species, in its infinitely complex relations to other organic beings and to external nature, will tend to the preservation of that individual, and will generally be inherited by its offspring. The offspring, also, will thus have a better chance of surviving.”

Charles Darwin

Quote · 1859

“The shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.”

Charles Darwin