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Title: On the Origin of Species a Facsimile of the First Edition by C. Darwin ISBN: 0-674-63752-6 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1975 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.22 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating
Comment: Tweaked my imagination and opened all kinds of doors. Our bookclub spent many hours hashing out ideas that this book explored. I put this on my recommend list.
Rating: 5
Summary: Answer to "Some concepts should be revised and corrected"
Comment: Some idiot wrote a review of this book as if it were a contemporary scientific publication, as if Darwin were still alive to rewrite another edition! Darwin was a great writer who used his keen mind in communicating his ideas in English. It is interesting to contrast Darwin's writings to Freud's works, which were also presented as scientific, but haven't stood up to scrutiny nearly as well. Let us also apply some of the principles of selection to Amazon reviews. Feel free to review this book if you can appreciate both the historic and literary value of Dawrins works. Otherwise, please keep your opinions to yourself.
Rating: 2
Summary: Some concepts should be revised and corrected......
Comment: I read the original version of "The origin of Species" a few years ago. As a naive secondary year student, I beleived in most of its contents. After that, when I started to think how animal behavor is programmed and how mutation (s) in such program can completely null the system as a whole, I started to ask myself how, then, these creatures (Ants, Bees,......etc) were the source of another more evoluted species or how they evolved from lower species. Actually, mutations can not attribute to the origin of such behavor(work in group, assigning the job to specific members...etc). Meanwhile, in the lab. scientists could not transform cyanobacteria to algae or bacteria to yeast.........etc. The only appreciated points of Darwin were his observations; modifications and variation. Science so far was not able to prove that life has evolved from nothing; the idea of the first cell (the first anscetor) still controversial. Meanwhile biochemical analyses proved that all creatures contain the same organic elements (N, C, H) and inorganic ones (P, S,...etc). Surperisingly, these analyses proved that Mud contain all of these elements and do not contain any toxic elements that are toxic to humans, for example. If anybody looked carefully to the DNA and how this molecule is well-arganized and how many enzymes are keeping this molecule in its normal conformation and maintain its function, He/She could get the point that cells generally are elaborately programmed; exaclty in a manner resembles that computer programs. Cells excute these programs starting from their brith to death and any change in this program cause serious problems. Fossils showed insects with the same compund eyes exactly like that insects that are surviving nowadays. Some fossils, also, showed different species, which are supposed not to be together, in the same historic era. we know also now that must of the mutations are harmful and fatal to the organisms(for example, in humans mutations cause sever diseases). Meanwhile research on HIV showed that mutations in this virus never originate a new viral species, but result in defective HIV viruses that could not replicate, assemble, and therefore not able to re infect its host to survive. Actually, similarity among the species can not prove they originated from each other(if we argue that sequence homology between Mankey and human, for example, is so close and so they are relative, this is not true). My opinion does not refute the book; it contains very old concepts that should be revised and corrected.
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Title: The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin, H. James Birx ISBN: 1573921769 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: In Memoriam, Second Edition (Norton Critical Editions) by Erik Gray, Alfred Lord Tennyson ISBN: 0393979261 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.80 |
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Title: What Is Life?: The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell With Mind and Matter & Autobiographical Sketches by Erwin Schrodinger, Roger Penrose ISBN: 0521427088 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Charles Darwin: Voyaging ISBN: 0691026068 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Charles Darwin: The Power of Place by Janet Browne ISBN: 0691114390 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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