CHARLES DARWIN (1809-1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, whose scientific theory of evolution by natural selection became the foundation of modern evolutionary studies. Darwin at first shocked religious Victorian society by suggesting that animals and humans shared a common ancestry. However, his nonreligious biology appealed to the rising class of professional scientists, and by the time of his death evolutionary imagery had spread through all of science, literature, and politics. He ranks among the most influential figures in human history.
Darwin formulated his bold theory in private in 1837-39, after returning from a voyage around the world aboard HMS Beagle, but it was not until two decades later that he finally gave it full public expression with compelling evidence in ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES (1859). By the 1870s, the scientific community and a majority of the educated public had accepted evolution as a fact, but it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensus developed in which natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution. Today it is the unifying theory of the life sciences, explaining the diversity of life.
The following books are in ePUB and/or PDF format as indicated (texts designated "CLC" are from the Cambridge Library Collection, facsimile copies of the original publication):
* Autobiographies (Penguin Classics, 2002). Neve & Messenger, eds. -- ePUB
* Complete Works (Delphi Classics, 2015) -- ePUB
* Descent of Man (Penguin Classics, 2004). Moore & Desmond, eds. -- ePUB
* Descent of Man (Plume, 2007). Carl Zimmer, ed. -- ePUB
* Descent of Man (Princeton, 1981). Bonner & May, eds. -- PDF
* Descent of Man, Vol. 1 (CLC, 2009) -- PDF
* Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in Vegetable Kingdom (CLC, 2009) -- PDF
* Erasmus Darwin [E. Krause] (CLC, 2009). Preface by C. Darwin. -- PDF
* Evolutionary Writings (Oxford WC, 2008). Secord, ed. -- ePUB + PDF
* Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (CLC, 2009) -- PDF
* Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (Penguin Classics, 2009) -- ePUB
* Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms (CLC, 2009) -- PDF
* Foundation of the Origin of Species (CLC, 2009) -- PDF
* Hosts of Living Forms (Penguin Great Ideas, 2010) -- ePUB
* Insectivorous Plants (CLC, 2009) -- PDF
* It Was Snowing Butterflies (Penguin Classics, 2015) -- ePUB
* Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History (CLC, 2009) -- PDF
* Naturalists Voyage Round the World (Skyhorse, 2014) -- ePUB
* On Natural Selection (Penguin Great Ideas, 2004) -- ePUB
* On the Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants (CLC, 2009) -- PDF
* Origin of Species (Barnes & Noble, 2004). George Levine, ed. -- ePUB
* Origin of Species (Broadview, 2003). Joseph Carroll, ed. -- PDF
* Origin of Species (CLC, 2009) -- PDF
* Origin of Species (Oxford WC, 2008). Gillian Beer, ed. -- ePUB + PDF
* Origin of Species (Penguin Classics, 1985). J.W. Burrow, ed. -- ePUB
* Origin of Species (Penguin Classics, 2009). William Bynum, ed. -- ePUB
* Origin of Species (Signet, 2003). Intro by Julian Huxley. -- ePUB
* Origin of Species / Voyage of Beagle (Everyman, 2003). R. Dawkins, intro. -- ePUB
* Power of Movement in Plants (CLC, 2009) -- PDF
* Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication (CLC, 2010) -- PDF
== LETTERS, DIARIES & NOTEBOOKS ==
* Darwin's Notebooks, 1836-1844 (Cambridge, 2008). Barrett et al., eds. -- PDF
* Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters (CLC, 2009). Litchfield, ed. -- PDF
* Evolution: Selected Letters, 1860-1870 (Cambridge, 2008). Burkhardt, ed. -- PDF
* Life and Letters of CD (CLC, 2009). 2 vols. Frances Darwin, ed. -- PDF
* Natural Calling, A: Life, Letters and Diaries (Springer, 2009) -- PDF
* Origins: Selected Letters, 1822-1859 (Cambridge, 2008). Burkhardt, ed. -- PDF
* Selected Letters on Evolution & Origin of Species (Dover, 2018) -- ePUB
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