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THB[Science - Evolution] Darwin, Descent of Man, 1871 First American Edition in Two Volumes
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Darwin, Charles R. (1809 - 1882) Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, with illustrations. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1871, 2 volumes. First American edition. 8vo, rust cloth, black geometric design on boards, gilt lettering on spines; vol. I - vim 409pp, plus 2pp ads for Appleton's publications of Origin of Species and Huxley's "Lay Sermons;" vol. II - (vii), 436pp, plus 12pp ads for Appleton publications in rear; also pp. 3-4 of Appleton ad tipped in to front. Vol. II has 16 errata for Vol. I, but none for vol. II that appeared in the second printing of the English edition. These are printed on the blank after the contents, facing the Postscript.
This was Darwin's second major work dealing with evolution, and the first in which he actually used the term "evolution," especially as it applied to our own species, and did so on the second page of the Introduction to the first volume. He had avoided the issue for over a decade, and now took on the subject head-on, although certainly others before him had already come to the same general conclusions, notably Thomas Huxley. Indeed, Huxley's book, Man's Place in Nature, published in 1863, had already poked that hornet's nest, and the fight had been raging for years.
Darwin acknowledges in the Introduction:
During many years I collected notes on the origin or descent of man, without any intention of publishing on the subject, but rather with the determination not to publish, as I thought that I should thus only add to the prejudices against my views. It seemed to me sufficient to indicate, in the first edition of my 'Origin of Species,' that by this work "light would be thrown on the origin of man and his history;" and this implies that man must be included with other organic beings in any general conclusion respecting his manner of appearance on this earth. Now the case wears a wholly different aspect....[I]t is manifest that at least a large number of naturalists must admit that species are the modified descendants of other species;... The greater number accept the agency of natural selection; though some urge, ...that I have greatly overrated its importance.
In consequence of the view now adopted by most naturalists, ...I have been led to put together my notes, so as to see how far the general conclusions arrives at in my former works were applicable to man. ... [T]hese great classes of facts afford, as it appears to me, ample and conclusive evidence in favor of the principle of gradual evolution.
One of the classics in biological science.
Wear to spine ends. Some evidence of light water stains. Corners bumped. Generally wear to boards, but internally better. Vol. 1 with second free front endpaper torn out.Condition
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