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On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

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On the Origin of Species
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Publisher: P.F. Collier & son
Number of pages: 500

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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 evolutionary theory.

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