the origin of species

中文書名/Chinese Title: 物種起源

出版時間/Publication Date: 1999-06-01

版　次/Edition:

頁　數/Pages: 512

裝　幀/Format: 平裝

尺寸及重量/Dimensions & Weight:

紙　張/Paper: 膠版紙

正文語種/Language: 英文

所屬分類/Category: 圖書 > 英文原版書 > Science（科學）

進化與遺傳的全面考察與經典闡述

宇宙進化，導致生命起源；生物進化，導致人類起源；人類進化。導致社會的起源與發展。這就是《物種起源》所揭示的物種的演進規律。

遺傳、變異與選擇，是生物進化過程中自然選擇的三種主導力量。而《物種起源》則全面考察了這三種力量的交互的作用關係。

人類文明史中的不朽巨著

The publication of Darwin's The Origin of Species in 1859 marked a dramatic turning point in scientific thought. The volume had taken Darwin more than twenty years to publish, in part because he envisioned the storm of controversy it was certain to unleash. Indeed, selling out its first edition on its first day, The Origin of Species revolutionized science, philosophy, and theology.

Darwin's reasoned, documented arguments carefully advance his theory of natural selection and his assertion that species were not created all at once by a divine hand but started with a few simple forms that mutated and adapted over time. Whether commenting on his own poor health, discussing his experiments to test instinct in bees, or relating a conversation about a South American burrowing rodent, Darwin's monumental achievement is surprisingly personal and delightfully readable. Its profound ideas remain controversial even today, making it the most influential book in the natural sciences ever written—an important work not just to its time but to the history of humankind.

影響人類發展進程的劃時代著作。1985年美國《生活》雜誌評為人類有史以來最佳圖書。1986年法國《讀書》雜誌推薦的最理想藏書之一。《物種起源》的問世，第一次讓生物學建立在完全科學的基礎之上。徹底推翻了“神創論”和“物種不變論”。