There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed 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. -- Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859)
Works
- "An Historical Sketch Of The Progress Of Opinion On The Origin Of Species"
- Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859), introduction
- Chapter II of Darwin's Autobiography
- Darwin's Demiurge: Natural Selection & Rhetorical Paradox
- The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
- Darwin and the Galápagos Islands: An Annotated Guide to the Primary Texts
The Scientific and Cultural Contexts
- Darwin and the Scientific Naturalist View of Truth
- Darwin and the Removal of Design
- Darwin's Theory of Evolution and the Intellectual Ferment of the Mid- and Late Victorian Periods
- Darwin and Evolution Timeline
- Darwin and Evolution
- Darwin's Imagery: The Tree and the Tree of Life
- Darwin's Ancestors: The Evolution of Evolution
- Richard Kaye on Darwin's Theories of Sexual Selection and Victorian Culture
- What actually happened at the 1860 Wilberforce-Huxley debate?
Pre-Darwininan Views of Evolution and Anticipations of Darwin
- Evolutionary Theory before Darwin
- Gillian Beer on the Pre-History of the Term "Evolution"
- Herbert Spencer's Anticipations of Natural Selection
- Patrick Matthew and Natural Selection, 1831 (Berkeley site)
Responses to Darwin's evolutionary theories
- Jenkin, Fleeming. Review of Darwin's The origin of species. The North British Review 46 (June 1867): 277-318.
- Wilberforce, Samuel. "[Review of] On the Origin of Species." Quarterly Review (1860): 225-264.
- Campbell, George. The reign of law. 1860.
- [Huxley, T.H.] "[Review of] The origin of Species." Westminster Review 17 (1860): 541-70.
- Cooper, Thomas. The Stone Book: The Mosaic Record of Creation. 1878.
- Owen, Richard. Review of Darwin's Origin of Species. Edinburgh Review 3 (1860): 487-532.
- Tyndall, John. Address Delivered Before the British Association Assembled at Belfast. 1874.
- The Huxley File (at Clark University)
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