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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Images are bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Galileo and Newton following on Copernicus and Kepler finally robbed our earth of its claim to a central position in the universe. At the same time they introduced us to the idea of universal scientific law by demonstrating that the behaviour of the moon the earth and the other planets was due to the same force of gravity that makes a raindrop or a stone fall to the ground. So two centuries later Darwin following on Lamarck and the other great naturalists comparative anatomists and physiologists who preceded him finally dethroned man from his claim to a unique position as Lord of Creation. At the same time he introduced us to the idea of universal law in biology by demon- strating that all plants and animals including man himself share many basic similarities and that the origin of the human species is due to the same general type of agency which is involved in producing a local variety of snail or a new breed of poultry: evolution operates as automatically as gravity. (MP)