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by Charles Darwin

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An edition of On the origin of species by means of natural selection (1859)

The Origin of Species (Oxford World's Classics)

by Charles Darwin

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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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May 22, 1998

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Oxford University Press, USA

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English

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480

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12 De l'origine des espèces, ou Des lois de progrès chez les êtres organisés 1862, Guillaumin in French	bbbb Read Listen Locate

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"WHEN on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent."

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The Origin of Species (Oxford World's Classics)

by Charles Darwin