Published amid a firestorm of controversy in 1859, this is a book that changed the world. Reasoned and well-documented in its arguments, it offers coherent views of natural selection, adaptation, the struggle for existence, survival of the fittest, and other concepts that form the foundation of evolutionary theory.

"Taken from the Penguin Classics edition of The origin of Species, edited by J.W. Burrow"--T.p. verso. "The Origin of Species first published 1859" -- T.P. verson.