TY - GEN AU - Darwin, Charles TI - On the origin of species SN - 9780199219223 U1 - 576.82 PY - 1996/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Evolution (Biology) KW - Natural selection N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxiv]-xxxvi) and index N2 - In the Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply held beliefs of the Western world. His insistence on the immense length of the past and on the abundance of life-forms, present and extinct, dislodged man from his central position in creation and called into question the role of the Creator. He showed that new species are achieved by natural selection, and that absence of plan is an inherent part of the evolutionary process ER -