Hosts of Living Forms

Hosts of Living Forms  (English, Paperback, Darwin Charles)

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  • Language: English
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Genre: Religion
  • ISBN: 9780141048109, 0141048107
  • Edition: 2010
  • Pages: 160
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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 extinct and are supplanted.

GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

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Imprint
  • Penguin Classics
Publication Year
  • 2010 August
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  • Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury in 1809 and was educated at Shrewsbury School, Edinburgh University and Christs College Cambridge. He took his degree in 1831 and in the same year embarked on a five-year voyage on HMS Beagle as a companion to the captain; the purpose of the voyage was to chart the coasts of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, and to carry a chain of chronometric readings round the world. While he was away some of his letters on scientific matters were privately published, and on his return he at once took his place among the leading men of science. In 1839 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Most of the rest of his life was occupied in publishing the findings of the voyage and in documenting his theory of the transmutation of species. On the origin of species by means of natural selection appeared in 1859. Darwin spent many years with his wife his cousin Emma Wedgwood, whom he had married in 1839 and their children at Down House in Kent. He died in 1882, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
Series & Set Details
Series Name
  • Penguin Great Ideas
Dimensions
Width
  • 9 mm
Height
  • 181 mm
Length
  • 111 mm
Depth
  • 9
Weight
  • 101 gr
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