Book Description

This journal takes the reader from the coasts and interiors of South America to the South Sea Islands. It displays Darwin's speculative mind at work, posing searching questions about the complex relations between the Earth's structure, animal forms, anthropology and the origins of life itself.

Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world's beauty, sublimity and otherness which language could barely capture. This journal takes the reader from the coasts and interiors of South America to the South Sea Islands. It displays Darwin's speculative mind at work, posing searching questions about the complex relations between the Earth's structure, animal forms, anthropology and the origins of life itself.

Book Dimension :

length: (cm)19.8 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)12.6

达尔文（1809-1882），英国博物学家，进化论的奠基人。1825年至1828年达尔文在爱丁堡大学学医，后进入剑桥大学学习神学。1831年从剑桥大学毕业后，以博物学家的身份乘海军勘探船“小猎犬号”作历时5年（1831-1836）的环球旅行，观察和搜集了动物、植物的地质等方面的大量材料，经过归纳整理和分析，形成了生物进化的概念。1859年出版《物种起源》一书，全面提出以自然选择为基础的进化学说。该书出版震动当时的学术界，使当时生物学各领域已经形成的概念和观念发生根本性的改变。