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Author: DARWIN, CHARLES

Popular science

Published on 19 March 1998 by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Classics of World Literature’ series.

Paperback | 416 pages
197 x 127 x 22 | 268g

With an Introduction by Jeff Wallace.

‘A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die…’.

Darwin’s theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species has been specifically created; all are locked into a pitiless struggle for existence, with extinction looming for those not fitted for the task.

Yet The Origin of Species (1859) is also a humane and inspirational vision of ecological interrelatedness, revealing the complex mutual interdependencies between animal and plant life, climate and physical environment, and – by implication – within the human world.

Written for the general reader, in a style which combines the rigour of science with the subtlety of literature, The Origin of Species remains one of the founding documents of the modern age.