（哈佛经典11）The Origin of Species of Charles Darwin

　　EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
　　AN HISTORICAL SKETCH
　　OF THE PROGRESS OF OPINON ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
　　INTRODUCTION
　　CHAPTER 1
　　VARIANTION UNDER DOMESTICALTION
　　CHAPTER 2
　　VARIANTION UNDER NATURE
　　CHAPTER 3
　　STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE
　　CHAPTER 4
　　NATURAL SELECTION; OR THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
　　CHAPTER 5
　　LAWS OF VARIATION
　　CHAPTER 6
　　DIFFICUTIES OF THE THEORY
　　CHAPTER 7
　　MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTIONS TO THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION
　　CHAPTER 8
　　INSTINCT
　　CHAPTER 9
　　CHAPTER 10
　　CHAPTER 12
　　CHAPTER 13
　　CHAPTER 14
　　CHAPTER 15
　　GLOSSARY

　　This is indeed one of most important and influential books ever written,and is one of the very few groundbreaking works of scince that is truly readable.Darwin's friend T.H. Huxley said upon reading the origin,"How extremely stupid of me not to have though of that."Alfred Russel Wallace had thought of the same theory of evolution as Darwin did ,but it was Darwin who gahered the mass of supporting evidence-on domestic animals and plenat ,on variability, on dispersal-that swept most scientists before it .It's hardly necessary to metion that the book is still controversial:Darwin's remark in his conclusion that "Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history"is surely the pinnacle of British understatement.The fudamental conceptions and the aims of the students of living Nature have been completely changed ,yet the spirit of the man is almost as wondeful as his work.His disinterestedness,his modesty ,and his absolute fainess are not only beautiful in themselves,but remain as a proof of the importance of character in intellectual labor.