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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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Non-Fiction
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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