00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000004378 20200508202707 200508||||||||| | ||| |||| ||eng|| 0-85229-531-6b5 010-0520004378 eng 001.03 001.03/DAR/G Charles Darwin Great Books of The Western World, Vol. 49/07423 8 New York Abdi Tandur 2005 v; 659 Hal 659 Hal Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. in an attempt to present the western canon in a single package of 54 volumes. The series is now in its second edition and contains 60 volumes. Volume 49 served the history, philosophy and works of Charles Darwin, the first of the evolutionary biologists, the originator of the concept of natural selection. His principal works, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871) marked a new epoch. His works were violently attacked and energetically defended, then; and, it seems, yet today.