On the origin of species by means of natural selection; or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life / by Charles Darwin.

Abstract

This sixth edition of Te Origin of Species was published in 1876. It is the last edition on which Darwin himself worked before his death in 1882, and offers a useful complement to the 2009 scholarly edition, edited by Jim Endersby and published by Cambridge University Press in Darwins bicentennial year. Te sixth edition contains a Historical sketch in which Darwin reviews the many works by eminent European and American scientists beginning with Lamarck in 1801 in which ideas of evolutionary species change and of natural selection were touched on but not developed. Tis edition, like all from the second onwards, contains the words by the Creator, controversially added to the famous last sentence in the book: Tere is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.