Darwin lays out the evidence for evolution by natural selection, arguing that all species descend with modification from common ancestors. The book that overturned biology.
Books that mention On the Origin of Species (19)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce: “MacCann, with one hand on _The Origin of Species_ and the other hand on the new testament, tells you that you admired the great flanks of Venus”
Trilby by George du Maurier: “A--a--it's the _Origin of Species_, by Charles Darwin. I'm very f-f-fond of it. I'm reading it for the third time....”
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams: “Adams was content to read Darwin, especially his "Origin of Species" and his "Voyage of the Beagle."”
An Immense World by Ed Yong: “"...could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree," he wrote in The Origin of Species.”
Ulysses by James Joyce: “the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin, expounded in _The Descent of Man_ and _The Origin of Species_.”
Possession by A. S. Byatt: “The Origin of Species was published in 1859. Ash’s friend Michelet, the great historian, had at this time taken to nature study”
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie: “Sufyan, sucking teeth, made reference to the last edition of The Origin of Species. 'In which even great Charles accepted the notion of mutation in extremis, to ensure survival of species...'”
Born in Exile by George Gissing: “The day has gone by for downright assaults on science; to be marketable, you must prove that _The Origin of Species_ was approvingly foreseen in the first chapter of Genesis, and that the Apostles' Creed conflicts in no single point with the latest results of biblical criticism.”
Gai-Jin by James Clavell: “The only good in the mail were the books from Hatchard's in Piccadilly: a new illustrated edition of Darwin's explosive On the Origin of Species...”
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari: “Otto von Bismarck allegedly remarked (having read Darwin's On the Origin of Species)...”
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson: “in 1859, in On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin announced that the geological processes...”
Cosmos by Alexander von Humboldt: Chapter epigraph: "...endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. —Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1859"
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari: “this seemingly medieval idea became binding Catholic dogma only in 1870, eleven years after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species”
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver: “I stayed awake six nights running when I discovered On the Origin of Species”
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham: “He read The Origin of Species. It seemed to offer an explanation of much that troubled him.”
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin: “I may take this opportunity of remarking that my critics frequently assume that I attribute all changes of corporeal structure and mental power exclusively to the natural selection of such variations as are often called spontaneous; whereas, even in the first edition of the 'Origin of Species,' I…”
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler: “Ernest had hardly been ordained before three works in quick succession arrested the attention even of those who paid least heed to theological controversy. I mean "Essays and Reviews," Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species," and Bishop Colenso's "Criticisms on the Pentateuch."”
Dogra Magra by Yumeno Kyūsaku: “The paper Dr. Masaki submitted then, Dr. Saito predicted, would shake the scholarly world as much as Darwin's On the Origin of Species or Einstein's Principle of Relativity, or even more: it was the Treatise on the Brain. [auto-translated]”