Acknowledgements
Introduction
- The Classic Status of The Origin of Species
- Plan of the Introduction
- Darwin's Subject
- The Historical Moment of The Origin of Species
- Darwin's Intellectual Character
- The Lamarckian and Spencerian Alternative to Darwinism
- The Inception and Gestation of Darwin's Theory
- Darwin's Evolutionary Psychology
- The Nature of the Darwinian Revolution
- Recommendations for Further Reading
- 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
- Francis Darwin's Description of the Manuscript
- 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
- Creationism and Natural Theology
- The First Book of Moses called GENESIS
- William Paley, from Natural Theology; or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, collected from the appearances of nature (1802)
- Pre-Darwinian Speculations on Evolution: Lamarck and Spencer
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, from Zoological Philosophy (1809)
- Herbert Spencer
- From Social Statics (1851)
- From First Principles (1862)
- From Principles of Biology (1864), vol. 1, part 3, chapter 12
- From Autobiography (1904)
- Thomas Malthus, from An Essay on the Principle of Population (6th ed., 1826)
- Charles Lyell, from Principles of Geology (1830-33)
- The Co-Discovery of Natural Selection: Alfred Russel Wallace, On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type (1858)
- Thomas Henry Huxley on the Historical Situation of The Origin of Species
- From Evolution in Biology (1878)
- From The Origin of Species (1860)
- From Criticisms on The Origin of Species (1864)
- From Charles Darwin (1882)
- From On the Reception of The Origin of Species (1887)
Register of Names
Index to the Introduction, Darwin's Historical Sketch, and the Appendices