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L'origine delle specie, L'origine dell'uomo e altri scritti sull'evoluzione
Edizioni integrali
Viaggio di un naturalista intorno al mondo, L’origine delle specie, L’origine dell’uomo e la selezione sessuale; I fondamenti dell’origine delle specie, Autobiografia
L’idea che gli esseri viventi abbiano trovato origine in forme elementari primordiali, dalle quali si sarebbero poi sviluppate per gradi le specie attuali, si ritrova già accennata nella storia del pensiero dai Greci in poi: ma solo con Charles Darwin questa intuizione raggiunge una struttura sistematica e una fisionomia definita. Sulla base d’un numero imponente di dati, osservazioni, raffronti sulla flora e la fauna di differenti latitudini, il giovane naturalista inglese giunse, verso la metà del secolo XIX, a conclusioni sconvolgenti, rivoluzionarie circa l’origine della vita. La pubblicazione, nel 1859, dell’Origine delle specie, che raccoglieva i risultati delle sue ricerche, procurò a Darwin la notorietà, la gloria, e il biasimo a un tempo. Il successo editoriale fu prodigioso, la prima edizione (oltre mille esemplari) fu esaurita in un giorno. Con quest’opera rigorosa e straordinaria, Darwin scardinava la tradizione biblica della creazione del mondo, introducendo il concetto di una lenta evoluzione delle specie animali e vegetali da antenati profondamente diversi.
In questo volume sono riuniti, oltre ai due testi fondamentali per la teoria dell'evoluzionismo (L'origine delle specie e L'origine dell'uomo e la selezione sessuale), Viaggio di un naturalista intorno al mondo, diario del viaggio che Darwin nel 1831 intraprese a bordo del brigantino Beagle e durante il quale, osservando e raccogliendo specie animali e vegetali ancora sconosciute, iniziò a formulare le sue teorie; i saggi, gli abbozzi e le comunicazioni che precedettero la pubblicazione della sua prima opera e l'Autobiografia, scritta da Darwin per i figli e che proprio il figlio scienziato Francis fece pubblicare nel 1887.
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Published June 18, 2009
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About the author
Charles Darwin
2,387 books3,424 followersCharles Robert Darwin of Britain revolutionized the study of biology with his theory, based on natural selection; his most famous works include
On the Origin of Species
(1859) and
The Descent of Man
(1871).
Chiefly Asa Gray of America advocated his theories.
Works of Jacques Martin Barzun include Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941).
Charles Robert Darwin, an eminent English collector and geologist, proposed and provided scientific evidence of common ancestors for all life over time through the process that he called. The scientific community and the public in his lifetime accepted the facts that occur and then in the 1930s widely came to see the primary explanation of the process that now forms modernity. In modified form, the foundational scientific discovery of Darwin provides a unifying logical explanation for the diversity of life.
Darwin developed his interest in history and medicine at Edinburgh University and then theology at Cambridge. His five-year voyage on the Beagle established him as a geologist, whose observations and supported uniformitarian ideas of Charles Lyell, and publication of his journal made him as a popular author. Darwin collected wildlife and fossils on the voyage, but their geographical distribution puzzled him, who investigated the transmutation and conceived idea in 1838. He discussed his ideas but needed time for extensive research despite priority of geology. He wrote in 1858, when Alfred Russel Wallace sent him an essay, which described the same idea, prompting immediate joint publication.
His book of 1859 commonly established the dominant scientific explanation of diversification in nature. He examined human sexuality in Selection in Relation to Sex , and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals followed. A series of books published his research on plants, and he finally examined effect of earthworms on soil.
A state funeral recognized Darwin in recognition of preeminence and only four other non-royal personages of the United Kingdom of the 19th century; people buried his body in Westminster abbey, close to those of John Herschel and Isaac Newton.
Her fathered Francis Darwin, astronomer George Darwin, and politician, economist and eugenicist Leonard Darwin.
(Arabic: تشارلز داروين)
Chiefly Asa Gray of America advocated his theories.
Works of Jacques Martin Barzun include Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941).
Charles Robert Darwin, an eminent English collector and geologist, proposed and provided scientific evidence of common ancestors for all life over time through the process that he called. The scientific community and the public in his lifetime accepted the facts that occur and then in the 1930s widely came to see the primary explanation of the process that now forms modernity. In modified form, the foundational scientific discovery of Darwin provides a unifying logical explanation for the diversity of life.
Darwin developed his interest in history and medicine at Edinburgh University and then theology at Cambridge. His five-year voyage on the Beagle established him as a geologist, whose observations and supported uniformitarian ideas of Charles Lyell, and publication of his journal made him as a popular author. Darwin collected wildlife and fossils on the voyage, but their geographical distribution puzzled him, who investigated the transmutation and conceived idea in 1838. He discussed his ideas but needed time for extensive research despite priority of geology. He wrote in 1858, when Alfred Russel Wallace sent him an essay, which described the same idea, prompting immediate joint publication.
His book of 1859 commonly established the dominant scientific explanation of diversification in nature. He examined human sexuality in Selection in Relation to Sex , and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals followed. A series of books published his research on plants, and he finally examined effect of earthworms on soil.
A state funeral recognized Darwin in recognition of preeminence and only four other non-royal personages of the United Kingdom of the 19th century; people buried his body in Westminster abbey, close to those of John Herschel and Isaac Newton.
Her fathered Francis Darwin, astronomer George Darwin, and politician, economist and eugenicist Leonard Darwin.
(Arabic: تشارلز داروين)
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