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Also by Charles Darwin:

On the Origin of Species, October 2008
Hardcover
On Natural Selection, September 2005
Paperback (reprint)
Origin of Species, May 2002
Paperback (reprint)

Origin of Species
Charles Darwin

The Origin of Species sold out on the first day of its publication in 1859. It is the major book of the nineteenth century, and one of the most readable and accessible of the great revolutionary works of the scientific imagination.

Gramercy
May 2002
544 pages
ISBN: 0517123207
Paperback (reprint)
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The Origin of Species was the first mature and persuasive work to explain how species change through the process of natural selection. Upon its publication, the book began to transform attitudes about society and religion, and was soon used to justify the philosophies of communists, socialists, capitalists, and even Germany's National Socialists. But the most quoted response came from Thomas Henry Huxley, Darwin's friend and also a renowned naturalist, who exclaimed, "How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!"

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