The Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection of the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life - Softcover

When Charles Darwin returned from his travels aboard the H.M.S. Beagle in 1836 he was welcomed by the scientific community and soon published his journals on the voyage. But some of his observations had given rise to a radical theory that Darwin worked on in secret for two more decades. When this revolutionary work was published in 1859 it is said to have sold out in one day. Publication has continued uninterrupted ever since as has the controversy it sparked between science and theology. "