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This Companion commemorates the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species and examines its main arguments. Drawing on the expertise of leading authorities in the field, it also provides the contexts – religious, social, political, literary, and philosophical – in which the Origin was composed.

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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 1

Charles Darwin, Edited by Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith, Edited in association with David Kohn, William Montgomery

The letters, most of which are published for the first time, include all that have been preserved from Darwin's correspondence with family, undergraduate friends as well as others in Shropshire and Staffordshire. voyage.

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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 2

Charles Darwin, Edited by Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith

This is the second volume of the complete edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin.

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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 3

Charles Darwin, Edited by Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith

The letters, most of which are published for the first time, include all that have been preserved from Darwin's correspondence with family, undergraduate friends as well as others in Shropshire and Staffordshire. voyage.

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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 4

Charles Darwin, Edited by Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith

his volume covers the first years of Darwin's study of the structure and systematics of barnacles: work that involved a worldwide search for specimens...

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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 5

Charles Darwin, Edited by Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith

The correspondence in this volume reveals the two sides of Darwin's life in a new intensity.

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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 6

Charles Darwin, Edited by Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith

This volume covers the culmination of Darwin's work on species. From early in 1856, when he was persuaded that the time had come to publish an account of his heterodox theories through 1857, Darwin's letters document the labor involved in composing his "big species book," his zest for research, and his unflagging determination to succeed.

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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 7

Charles Darwin, Edited by Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith

The seventh volume of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin covers two of the most momentous years in Darwin's life and in the history of science.

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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 8

Charles Darwin, Edited by Frederick Burkhardt, Janet Browne, Duncan M. Porter, Marsha Richmond

Volume 8 opens with Darwin eagerly scrutinizing each new review, as one by one all the major media of the day carried notices of the book.

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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 9

Charles Darwin, Edited by Frederick Burkhardt, Janet Browne, Duncan M. Porter, Marsha Richmond

The correspondence in this volume continues to reveal the variety of responses to Darwin's species theory in the second year following the publication of The Origin of Species.

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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 10

Charles Darwin, Edited by Frederick Burkhardt, Joy Harvey, Duncan M. Porter, Jonathan R. Topham

As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a very productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments he carried out.

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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 11

Charles Darwin, Edited by Frederick Burkhardt, Duncan Porter, Sheila Ann Dean, Jonathan R. Topham, Sarah Wilmot

This volume includes many letters previously unpublished, and chronicles a year that was enlivened by scientific controversy and filled with scientific queries and discussions relating to Darwin's transmutation theory.

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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 12

Charles Darwin, Edited by Frederick Burkhardt, Duncan M. Porter, Sheila Ann Dean, Paul S. White, Sarah Wilmot

Volume 12 of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin provides the full authoritative texts of all known and available letters to and from Charles Darwin.

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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 13

Charles Darwin, Edited by Frederick Burkhardt, Duncan M. Porter, Sheila Ann Dean, Samantha Evans, Shelley Innes, Alison M. Pearn

Volume 13 contains letters for 1865, the year Charles Darwin published his long paper on climbing plants and continued work on his book, The Variation of Plants and Animals under Domestication.

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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 14

Charles Darwin, Edited by Frederick Burkhardt, Duncan M. Porter, Sheila Ann Dean, Samantha Evans, Shelley Innes, Alison M. Pearn, Andrew Sclater, Paul White

Charles Darwin's health improved substantially in 1866 under a dietary and exercise regime prescribed by his physician Henry Bence Jones.

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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 15

Charles Darwin, Edited by Frederick Burkhardt

During 1867 Darwin intensified lines of research that were to result in two important publications, Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex and Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.

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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 17

Charles Darwin, Edited by Frederick Burkhardt

Over 850 letters between Darwin and worldwide correspondents, as he gathered information on human origins and the expression of emotion.

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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin Parts 1 and 2

Edited by Frederick Burkhardt

Charles Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person.

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A Calendar of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821–1882

Edited by Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith

Charles Darwin's correspondence provides a unique window on Darwin's working methods, the atmosphere of intellectual revolution of his time, and his doubts, anxieties, and false starts that are now little known.

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