An aesthetically pleasing volume, indicating how Darwin’s great work on evolution itself evolved.
Book review: Evolutionary edition of ‘On the Origin of Species’ by Simon Phillipson
origin of species
Book review: ‘Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species’ by Sabina Radeva
Darwin’s theory of evolution by means of natural selection explained for young children.
Newsletter No. 2: Writing with a dip pen
Our second newsletter marks the 159th anniversary of the publication of ‘On the Origin of Species’…
14-May-1856: Darwin starts writing his ‘big species book’
On 14 May 1856, Charles Darwin recorded in his journal that, on the advice of his friend Charles Lyell, after almost 20 years exploring the subject, he had finally begun writing a ‘sketch’ of his ideas on species.
Attenborough reads Darwin
In celebration of his 90th birthday, the BBC has released a short video of Sir David Attenborough reading from the final paragraph of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.