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The Darwin reader / edited by Mark Ridley.
- Title
- The Darwin reader / edited by Mark Ridley.
- Author
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
- Publication
- New York : Norton, 1987.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | QH365.D25 R53 1987b | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Ridley, Mark.
- Description
- xii, 271 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Key passages selected from nine prominent works from the English naturalist and geologist, who is best known for his scientific theories of evolution.
- Uniform Title
- Works. Selections. 1987
- Alternative Title
- Works. 1987
- Subject
- Note
- Originally published: London ; Boston : Allen & Unwin, 1987 under title: The essential Darwin.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 257-260.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : Charles Darwin -- The structure and distribution of coral reefs (1842) -- The voyage of the Beagle (1845, 1st edn 1839) -- The origin of species (1859) -- The variation of animals and plants under domestication (1868) -- The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex (1871) -- The expression of the emotions in man and animals (1872) -- The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species (1877) -- The power of movement in plants (1880) -- The formation of vegetable mould, through the action of worms (1881).
- ISBN
- 0393024768 :
- 0393956733 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^87005480^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library