![]() Ernst Mayr, introduction to the Harvard University facsimile edition, Harvard University Press, 1964, pp. ![]() Dibner 199 Freeman 373 (binding variant a, advertisements variant 3, no priority) Garrison-Morton 220 Horblit 23b Norman 593 Printing and the Mind of Man 344b. Dunham (signature, 29 June 1931, on front free endpaper verso). Provenance: George Yewdall, solicitor, Leeds (blindstamp on front free endpaper) Sir Charles Fellows, British archaeologist (armorial bookplate on rear pastedown) John Edwin Eddison, professor of veterinary medicine (signature on front free endpaper) Sturges S. ![]() Every modern discussion of man's future, the population explosion, the struggle for existence, the purpose of man and the universe, and man's place in nature rests on Darwin" (Mayr). The intellectual revolution it caused and the impact it had on man's concept of himself and the world were greater than those caused by the works of Copernicus, Newton, and the great physicists of more recent times. "The publication of the Origin of Species ushered in a new era in our thinking about the nature of man. First edition of "the most influential scientific work of the 19th century" (Horblit) and "certainly the most important biological book ever written" (Freeman), in which Darwin explained his concept of evolutionary adaptation through natural selection, which would become the foundation of modern evolutionary theory 1,250 copies were printed.
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