On the Origin of Species (Paperback)

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. The Classic Status of The Origin of Species
2. Plan of the Introduction
3. Darwin’s Subject
4. The Historical Moment of The Origin of Species
5. Darwin’s Intellectual Character
6. The Lamarckian and Spencerian Alternative to Darwinism
7. The Inception and Gestation of Darwin’s Theory
8. Darwin’s Evolutionary Psychology
9. The Nature of the Darwinian Revolution
10. Recommendations for Further Reading
11. Works Cited and Source Texts

Charles Darwin: A Brief Chronology

A Note on the Text

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

• An Historical Sketch of the Progress of Opinion onthe Origin of Species
  Contents
  Text
  Glossary of the Principal Scientific Terms Usedin the Present Volume
  Index

Appendix A: From The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

Appendix B: From Voyage of the Beagle: Excerpts from Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle (1839; 2nd ed. 1845)

Appendix C: From Darwin’s Notebooks

Appendix D: From the 1844 Manuscript

1. Francis Darwin’s Description of the Manuscript
2. Extract from a Chapter on Natural Selection

Appendix E: Letters

Appendix F: From The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871)

Appendix G: Contextual Materials

1. Creationism and Natural Theology
1. The First Book of Moses called GENESIS
2. William Paley, from Natural Theology; or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, collected from the appearances of nature (1802)
2. Pre-Darwinian Speculations on Evolution: Lamarck and Spencer
1. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, from Zoological Philosophy (1809)
2. Herbert Spencer
1. From Social Statics (1851)
2. From First Principles (1862)
3. From Principles of Biology (1864), vol. 1, part 3, chapter 12
4. From Autobiography (1904)
3. Thomas Malthus, from An Essay on the Principle of Population (6th ed., 1826)
4. Charles Lyell, from Principles of Geology (1830-33)
5. The Co-Discovery of Natural Selection: Alfred Russel Wallace, “On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type” (1858)
6. Thomas Henry Huxley on the Historical Situation of The Origin of Species
1. From “Evolution in Biology” (1878)
2. From The Origin of Species (1860)
3. From “Criticisms on The Origin of Species” (1864)
4. From “Charles Darwin” (1882)
5. From “On the Reception of The Origin of Species” (1887)

Register of Names

Index to the Introduction, Darwin’s Historical Sketch, and the Appendices