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.
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