5.0 out of 5 based on 5 reviews. – Customer review on 25/05/2009

One of the things that has struck me is what a good writer Darwin was - but I would be careful next time to choose an edition with bigger and less dense print. Darwin in the original is a must read in this 150th Anniversary.

5.0 out of 5 based on 5 reviews. – Customer review on 31/07/2008

Despite the length and weighty content of Darwin’s work, the text is remarkably easy reading. Unfortunately though, all the tempest and fanfare that have followed it now 150 years (first published in 1859), few have actually studied its pages. The Origin of Species has powerfully influenced nearly every contemporary field of scientific and philosophical study.

3.0 out of 5 based on 5 reviews. – Customer review on 25/08/2009

I'm finding this book really hard going. This is nothing against the man and his view-changing and religion-toppling theory, it is just that this edition it quite compact and there is a lot of work to be fit in such a small book. The pages are flimsy and of a poor quality. If I was you I would look for other editions of this masterpiece.

5.0 out of 5 based on 5 reviews. – Customer review on 28/07/2009

This book is definitely in the "must read" category. I have heard so many people talk about "Origin of Species" and claim authority over what Darwin wrote, but I've never yet actually met anyone who has read it. Read the book yourself. Find out what Darwin did actually claim as the Origin of Species, and more importantly, what he didn't. Written in the full knowledge that he was directly contradicting nearly two millennia of Christian dominated thinking about the world and the forces that shaped it, Darwin presents a powerful case that different theories of evolution can co-exist and ought to be treated with mutual respect, even if you don't agree with all of them.

5.0 out of 5 based on 5 reviews. – Customer review on 26/02/2010

Speaks for itself i guess--------
the darwinian use of victorian language simply adds flavour and in as much as i though the text would be rather dry, i was pleasantly surprised by the alacrity which with
darwin speaks (especially when talking about bear kangaroos).
He is also impartial in so far as he is willing to concede many difficulties with his incarnation the theory, though he does well to attempt a solution of explanation of them. A grand text of the nations!!