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Article: Darwin's world: Juliet Gardiner looks at recent publications marking the 150th anniversary of Darwin's most famous work and the bicentenary of his birth.(Charles Darwin )
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- February 1, 2009
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'Can we doubt ... that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and procreating their kind?' wrote Charles Darwin in On the Origin of Species, which was first published in 1859. It was 'a hasty introduction to his ideas, for which he would have further evidence in future', as Dame Gillian Beer reminds us in her introduction to the Oxford World's Classics volume (8.99 [pounds sterling]), first published in 1996 and reissued for the bicentenary of Darwin's birth, and 150 years since the publication of the Origin. With a fine chart of butterflies on the jacket, the Oxford edition is a small compendium containing a ...