On Natural Selection

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
No one has done more to shape our view of what makes us human than Charles Darwin, whose theory or evolution turned the Victorian world upside down, utterly rewrote our notions of life on earth and is still attacked by religious creationists today.