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HOST OF LIVING FORMS
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Charles Darwin transformed our understanding of the world with the idea of natural
selection, challenging the notion that species are fixed and unchanging. These writings
from On the Origin of Species explain how different life forms appear all over the
globe, evolve over millions of years, become extinct and are supplanted.
GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have
transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent,
war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have
enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great
thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped
make us who we are.
Charles Darwin, a Victorian scientist and naturalist, has become one
of the most famous figures of science to date. Born in 1809 to an upper-middle-class
medical family, he was destined for a career in either medicine or the Anglican Church.
However, he never completed his medical education and his future changed entirely in 1831
when he joined HMS Beagle as a self-financing, independent naturalist. On returning
to England in 1836 he began to write up his theories and observations which culminated in
a series of books, most famously On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
in 1859, where he challenged and contradicted contemporary biological and religious
beliefs with two decades worth of scientific investigation and theory. Darwin's theory of
natural selection is now the most widely accepted scientific model of how species evolve.
He died in 1882 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.Damien Hirst is an internationally
renowned English artist, who has dominated the art scene in England since the 1990s. Known
in particular for his series of works on death, Hirst here provides a contemporary, visual
take on Darwin's theory of evolution - the struggle between life and death in
nature.William Bynum is Professor Emeritus of the History of Medicine at University
College, London, and was for many years Head of the Academic Unit of the Wellcome
Institute for the History of Medicine. He edited the scholarly journal Medical History
from 1980 to 2001, and his previous publications include Science and the Practice of
Medicine in the Nineteenth Century; The Companion Encyclopedia of the History of
Medicine (co-edited with Roy Porter); The Oxford Dictionary of Scientific
Quotations (with Roy Porter), The Dictionary of Medical Biography (with Helen
Bynum), and History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction. He lives in Suffolk.
146 pages, Paperback
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