- Evolution, Evolution (Biology), Evolución, great_books_of_the_western_world
Charles Darwin's seminal work laying the foundations for the principles of evolutionary biology via natural selection, based on evidence that he collected during his expedition on *HMS Beagle* in the 1830s.
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- Author
- Charles Darwin
- First published
- 1882
- Pages
- 502
- Publisher
- L.J. Hiertas förlagsexpedition, D. Appleton and Co., Random Library
- Editions
- 259
- Language
- Spanish, dan, Chinese, Swedish
- ISBN
- 9780674637528
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“WHEN on board H.M.S. 'Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent.”
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