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On the Origin of Species

Categorie	Algemeen Natuur
Boeknummer	#424509-YC17
Titel	On the Origin of Species
Auteur	Darwin, Charles
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Oxford University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2008
ISBN10	0199219222
ISBN13	9780199219223
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting	In The Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply-held beliefs of the Western world. Arguing for a material, not divine, origin of species, he showed that new species are achieved by "natural selection." The Origin communicates the enthusiasm of original thinking in an open, descriptive style, and Darwin's emphasis on the value of diversity speaks more strongly now than ever. As well as a stimulating introduction and detailed notes, this edition offers a register of the many writers referred to by Darwin in the text. Dame Gillian Beer is Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. Her Darwin's Plots (1983; second edition 2000) was followed by Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter (1996). More recently she has been working on ... (Lees verder)Carroll's Alice books in the context of nineteenth-century intellectual controversies and a new collection of her essays on literature and science is scheduled for 2008.
Pagina's	394
Conditie	Goed — Naam/adres-stickertje op verso voorplat.
Prijs	€ 10,00

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