From So Simple a Beginning: The Four Great Books of Charles Darwin

This volume was the first to collect four of Charles Darwin's major works in a single book: The Voyage of the Beagle (1845), On the Origin of Species (1859), The Descent of Man (1871) and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872). The biologist Edward O. Wilson contributes an introductory essay, a new introduction to each book and an afterword on evolutionary theory amid religious resistance. A new index links Darwin's ideas to modern biology, and the original illustrations are restored.

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Seth Godin: “There are a thousand great books about evolution, but I picked the originals. Evolution doesn't care a bit about whether or not you believe in it. It's like gravity. It's there, it's a law, it's true, get used to it. The lesson of Darwin's life, though, his profound impact on the world on the basis of an idea that spread--this has inspired me to rethink change, to rethink influence and to rethink the responsibility each of us has to move the conversation forward.”