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Darwin's book did not address the question of human evolution, saying only that " Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history ".
Michael Behe's controversial book Darwin's Black Box popularized the concept of irreducible complexity.
He first used the term " irreducible complexity " in his 1996 book Darwin's Black Box, to refer to certain complex biochemical cellular systems.
Studies of Charles Darwin's notebooks have shown that Darwin arrived separately at the idea of natural selection which he set out in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, but it has been speculated that he may have had some half-forgotten memory from his time as a student in Edinburgh of ideas of selection in nature as set out by Hutton, and by William Charles Wells and Patrick Matthew who had both been associated with the city before publishing their ideas on the topic early in the 19th century.
* The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin's 1859 book
Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection.
Lyell discussed arrangements with publisher John Murray III, of the publishing house John Murray, who responded immediately to Darwin's letter of 31 March 1859 with an agreement to publish the book without even seeing the manuscript, and an offer to Darwin of of the profits.
( eventually Murray paid £ 180 to Darwin for the 1st edition and by Darwin's death in 1882 the book was in its 6th edition, earning Darwin nearly £ 3000.
During Darwin's lifetime the book went through six editions, with cumulative changes and revisions to deal with counter-arguments raised.
The book was widely translated in Darwin's lifetime, but problems arose with translating concepts and metaphors, and some translations were biased by the translator's own agenda.
More detail was given in Darwin's 1868 book on The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, which tried to explain heredity through his hypothesis of pangenesis.
David Quammen has described the book as written in everyday language for a wide audience, but noted that Darwin's literary style was uneven: in some places he used convoluted sentences that are difficult to read ; in other places his writing was beautiful.
Darwin's book legitimised scientific discussion of evolutionary mechanisms, and the newly coined term Darwinism was used to cover the whole range of evolutionism, not just his own ideas.
His subject matter was central to Victorian anxieties, which might be one reason Natural Theology continued to appeal to the reading public, making his book a best seller for most of the 19th century, even after the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species.
* The anonymously written Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation is published and paves the way for the acceptance of Darwin's book The Origin of Species.
Charles Darwin's book Fertilisation of Orchids included an illustration of the head of a moth with its proboscis laden with several pairs of Pollinium | pollinia from Orchis pyramidalis This hardy plant reaches on average
The book had been intended in part as a satire, a tract against child labour, as well as a serious critique of the closed-minded approaches of many scientists of the day in their response to Charles Darwin's ideas on evolution, which Kingsley had been one of the first to praise.
Greedy reductionism is a term coined by Daniel Dennett, in his 1995 book Darwin's Dangerous Idea, to refer to a kind of erroneous reductionism.
* Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, book by Daniel Dennett
Although often dismissed as a lightweight forerunner of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species, Chambers ' book was in reality a programme for the unification of science which aimed to show that Laplace's nebular hypothesis for the origin of the solar system and Lamarck's theory of species transformation were both instances ( in Lewes ' phrase ) of ' one magnificent generalization of progressive development.
* The Annual Register's 1871 book review of Charles Darwin's Descent of Man
The book, also known as Darwin's Journal of Researches, is a vivid and exciting travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific field journal covering biology, geology, and anthropology that demonstrates Darwin's keen powers of observation, written at a time when Western Europeans were exploring and charting the whole world.
Shermer later based a full-length, 2002 book on his dissertation: In Darwin's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace: A Biographical Study on the Psychology of History.

book and Dangerous
Questions have also frequently been raised about the logic of Marshall's argument for judicial review, for example by Alexander Bickel in his book The Least Dangerous Branch.
( This inspired the title of the George Lakoff book Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things.
In his book Women, Fire and Dangerous things: What categories reveal about the mind, Lakoff reappraised the hypothesis of linguistic relativity and especially Whorf's views about how linguistic categorization reflects and / or influences mental categories.
In 1987 she played the disturbed book editor Alex in Fatal Attraction, and in 1988 she played the scheming aristocrat The Marquise de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons.
Robertson made American national news in October 2003 for interviews with author Joel Mowbray about his book " Dangerous Diplomacy ", a book critical of the United States Department of State.
* Bitten is the name of a RL Stine book that contains Dangerous Girls and The Taste of Night
During the period when he worked on the book, The Dangerous Summer, he also brought the Paris memoir to a final draft stage.
* Dangerous Prey book by Pariah Press ( 1995 )
It features in the book 100 Most Dangerous Things in Everyday Life and What You Can Do About Them and is said to be factored into highway design.
He also contributed to the book When Painkillers Become Dangerous: What Everyone Needs to Know About OxyContin and Other Prescription Drugs, published in 2004.
This is Beattie's third book after his earlier autobiographical piece " In the Arena " ( 1990 ) and the thriller " The Year of the Dangerous Ones ".
In 1959, he and his brother-in-law, Antonio Ordóñez, engaged in a bullfighting rivalry that was chronicled by Ernest Hemingway in his book, The Dangerous Summer.
The Dangerous Summer is a nonfiction book by Ernest Hemingway published posthumously in 1985 and written in 1959 and 1960.
* Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, a 2000 nonfiction book on the mathematical concept of zero by Charles Seife
The term is explained in Mark Johnson's book The Body in the Mind, in case study 2 of George Lakoff's Women, Fire and Dangerous Things and by Rudolf Arnheim in Visual Thinking.
In case study two of his book Women, Fire and Dangerous Things, Lakoff re-presented the analysis done of the English word over done by Claudia Brugman in her doctoral dissertation.
His story was recounted in the book and movie Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
Brown, author of Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture ( 2011 ) noted The Killing Joke as an example of the " inherent misogyny of the male-dominated comic book industry " in light of the " relatively unequal violence characters are subjected to.
Brown, author of Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture ( 2011 ) noted The Killing Joke as an example of the " inherent misogyny of the male-dominated comic book industry " in light of the " relatively unequal violence characters are subjected to.
His final book, A Dangerous Place, was completed before his death but did not appear in print until 2003.
Carty and his eldest son, James, filmed together in a factual television series for Five, " Dangerous Adventures For Boys ", based on the book written by Conn and Hal Iggulden, The Dangerous Book for Boys.

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