epochal On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

Depending on how you count them up, Charles Darwin published just over twenty books in his lifetime. His fi rst—the Journal of Researches [1], also known as The Voyage of the Beagle was his most famous—until Darwin, pressured by the arrival in 1858 of A. R. Wallace’s manuscript on evolution through natural selection, stopped working on his “Big Species Book, ” [2] and wrote instead hi