About the Book: Origin Of Species
A classic that took the world by storm, raising havoc among scientists and
religious people as its exposition apparently contradicted the account of the
creation of the world of Genesis in the Bible, Charles Darwins The Origin of
Species remains the most readable and accessible of the great revolutionary
works of scientific imagination. Sold out on the very first day of its
publication in 1859 and often considered a watershed in the history of
scientific, philosophical and theological ideas, the book describes the most
fundamental truth of the natural world that there exists a "natural selection"
of favourable variations and a