Origin of Species

Author: Darwin
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This book is a classic in the history of biology. Darwin (1809-1882), a great British scientist, naturalist, and the founder of the theory of evolution, explores the journey of life from ancient single-celled organisms to humans with complex life structures and thought. Over the 3.3 billion years of life's journey, countless species have been born and perished, progressing from low to high. What miraculous force drives the evolution and development of organisms? For centuries, people have strived to find a convincing answer, but ultimately failed to solve the mystery. In 1859, On the Origin of Species was published, for the first time establishing biology on a completely scientific foundation. With its brand-new ideas on biological evolution, it overturned the theories of "divine creation" and "unchanging species," making the concept of universal biological evolution and the mechanism of "survival of the fittest" a widely accepted consensus in academia and intellectual circles. In the book, Darwin presents one shocking conclusion after another: life has only one ancestor because all life originated from a single primordial cell; organisms have evolved from simple to complex, from low to high, and have continuously engaged in survival struggles and natural selection. As a result, Darwin's theory of biological evolution is considered one of the three major discoveries of natural science in the 19th century, and many of the ideas mentioned in On the Origin of Species have become common knowledge.