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This Penguin Classic is performed by accomplished voice actor Ben Arogundade who’s known for his voice work in Doctor Who and Horizons. This definitive recording includes an Intro by William Bynum and the cover design is by Damien Hirst.

THE FOUNDATION of Species is among the most significant and influential books of its time and remains one of many contributions to philosophical and scientific thought. The theories Darwin units out here experienced an immediate and profound effect on the literature and philosophical considered his contemporaries, and continue to provoke believed and argument today. Written for the general public from the 1850’s, The Origin of Species laid out an evolutionary look at of the globe which challenged modern beliefs about divine providence as well as the fixity of varieties. He also established the outcomes of his pioneering focus on the interdependence of types: the ecology of pets and plants.