The Origin Of Species (edit title)

something witty approved Shelfari’s request to change the contributors of The Origin Of Species Thursday, October 1 2009.

• Added a contributor: L. Harrison Matthews: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Origin Of Species Thursday, October 1 2009.

• Added a contributor: L. Harrison Matthews: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the description of The Origin Of Species Friday, July 31 2009.

• The Origin of Species sold out on the first day of its publication in 1859. It is the major book of the nineteenth century, and one of the most readable and accessible of the great revolutionary works of the scientific imagination. The Origin of Species was the first mature and persuasive work to explain how species change through the process of natural selection. Upon its publication, the book began to transform attitudes about society and religion, and was soon used to justify the philosophies of communists, socialists, capitalists, and even Germany's National Socialists. But the most quoted response came from Thomas Henry Huxley, Darwin's friend and also a renowned naturalist, who exclaimed, "How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!"

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Origin Of Species Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• Edited a contributor: Gillian BeerCharles Darwin: (Primary NoneAuthor)
• Edited a contributor: Charles DarwinGillian Beer: (Primary None)
• Edited a contributor: Charles DarwinPhilip Appleman: (Primary AuthorNone)

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Origin Of Species Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• Edited a contributor: Philip ApplemanCharles Darwin: (Primary NoneAuthor)
• Edited a contributor: Charles DarwinGillian Beer: (Primary AuthorNone)
• Edited a contributor: Gillian BeerCharles Darwin: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Origin Of Species Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• Edited a contributor: L. Harrison MatthewsCharles Darwin: (Primary Author)
• Edited a contributor: Charles DarwinGillian Beer: (Primary AuthorNone)
• Edited a contributor: Gillian BeerPhilip Appleman: (Primary AuthorNone)
• Edited a contributor: Philip ApplemanCharles Darwin: (Primary AuthorNone)

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Origin Of Species Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Added a contributor: Gillian Beer: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Philip Appleman: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: L. Harrison Matthews: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Charles Darwin: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Origin Of Species Thursday, July 16 2009.

• WHEN we look to the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated plants and animals.