Title: On the Origin of Species
Author: Charles Darwin
Illustrator: N/A
Pages: 252
Genre: Non-Fiction
Dewey Decimal: 575 DAR
ISBN: N/A
Cost: $0
Title: The Descent of Man (included with the above text in one binding)
Author: Charles Darwin
Illustrator: N/A
Pages: 448
Genre: Non-Fiction
Dewey Decimal: 575 DAR
ISBN: N/A
Cost: $0
Title: The Illustrated Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Author: Charles Darwin
Illustrator: Richard E. Leakey
Pages: 223
Genre: Non-Fiction
Dewey Decimal: 575 DAR
ISBN: 0-8090-5735-2
Cost: $0
Darwin started his career as a man of science and God. But his natural curiosity and trip on the H.M.S. Beagle changed not only his life, but the life of evolutionary science. While Darwin is often seen as the father of evolution, he is nothing more than a student and teacher of the topic. He just happened to be the right person in the right place at the right time for history to put him on a pedestal.
This book has caused a lot of conversation of creation and evolution. Darwin was quoted in the February 2009 issue of Fast Company as saying "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change." How true this rings in the business market (how Fast Company referred to it).
The two books I checked out were informational and both appealed to different audiences. The first being the full version of Darwin's work. While clearly this was written for the educated person, there are some words and phrases that would be hard to comprehend for those without some higher education.
The second book is an abridged and illustrated version of Origin of Species. The introduction by Richard Leakey is a reason to pick this book up alone (the entire Leakey family is well known in this field of science) but the illustrations certainly help visual learners. And the abridgement cuts out a lot of the wordiness that the original had (and made feel like a copy of Moby Dick at times.)
You can check out some of the titles in this article for more information on how to discover Darwin.
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