La publication de L'Origine des espèces, en 1859, a marqué une révolution intellectuelle comparable à celle qui est associée aux noms de Copernic et Galilée. En proposant une théorie de la « descendance avec modification » et de la « sélection naturelle », Darwin apportait des réponses aux questions...
Cette nouvelle traduction part du constat suivant : il y a des différences majeures entre la première édition de L'Origine des espèces, parue en 1859, et la 6e édition parue en 1872. Après avoir longtemps privilégié la dernière édition, le public anglophone lit désormais la première depuis maintenan...
A new, deluxe hardcover edition of one of the most important scientific works ever written In December 1831, Charles Darwin boarded the HMS Beagle, accompanying her crew on a five-year journey that crossed the Atlantic Ocean to survey the coasts of South America. As the expedition's geologist and na...
The Autobiographies of Charles Darwin (1809-82) provide a fascinating glimpse into the mind of one of the world's intellectual giants. They begin with engaging memories of his childhood and youth and of his burgeoning scientific curiosity and love of the natural world, which led to him joining the e...
Charles Darwin transformed our understanding of the world with the idea of natural selection, challenging the notion that species are fixed and unchanging. These writings from On the Origin of Species explain how different life forms appear all over the globe, evolve over millions of years, become e...
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DARWIN'S GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER, RUTH PADEL When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory of evolution of species by a p...
Charles Darwins theory of evolution and natural selection has been debated and disparaged over time, but there is no dispute that he is responsible for some of the most remarkable and groundbreaking scientific findings in history. His five-year trip as a naturalist on the H.M.S. Beagletook him on a ...
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'The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus' A selection of Darwin's extraordinary adventures during the voyage of the Beagle Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Clas...
Published amid a firestorm of controversy in 1859, this is a book that changed the world. Reasoned and well-documented in its arguments, it offers coherent views of natural selection, adaptation, the struggle for existence, survival of the fittest, and other concepts that form the foundation of evol...
Extrait : "Quand on compare les individus appartenant à une même variété ou à une même sous-variété de nos plantes cultivées depuis le plus longtemps et de nos animaux domestiques les plus anciens, on remarque tout d'abord qu'ils diffèrent ordinairement plus les uns des autres que les individus app...
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DARWIN'S GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER, RUTH PADEL When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory of evolution of species by a p...
Introduction by Edward J. Larson Perhaps the most readable and accessible of the great works of scientific inquiry, The Origin of Species sold out its first printing on the very day it was published in 1859. Theologians quickly labeled Charles Darwin the most dangerous man in England and, as the Sat...
The classic that exploded into public controversy, revolutionized the course of science, and continues to transform our views of the world. ...
De l´origine des espèces au moyen de la sélection naturelle, ou la Préservation des races favorisées dans la lutte pour la vie (titre anglais original : On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the Preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life), est un ouvrage de Charles ...
De Darwin, on dit à peu près tout et son contraire. D'un côté, il serait le père de la biologie moderne; de l'autre, la source de théories douteuses, donnant naissance au darwinisme social, voire au nazisme. C'est le propre des grandes oeuvres que de susciter les interprétations les plus diverses. C...