Why are there so many different species, and why does each one seem made for its surroundings? Charles Darwin starts from concrete observations: breeders' pigeons, plants, the animals of distant islands. From them he draws a simple idea: in the struggle for life, it is the best adapted beings that survive and leave offspring.
It is in this book that Darwin sets out his theory of evolution by natural selection. It changed for ever the way we see living things and our own place in nature.
With the translation always in front of you, you can read this great classic of science in the language you are learning.
