ResearchGuides: Evolutionary Biology: Darwin and Natural Selection

Natural Selection and Biogeography

On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin; Joseph Carroll (Editor)
Call Number: QH365 .D369 2003
The Library has over 80 editions of Charles Darwin's classic work, many in the History of Science Center. This more recently published edition is available in the open stacks.
Charles Darwin v. 1 Voyaging v. 2 The Power of Place by Janet Browne
Call Number: QH31 .D2B78
Publication Date: 1996
This extensive 2 volume biography by an eminent Darwin scholar is accesible to the general reader.
In Darwin's Shadow: the life and science of Alfred Russel Wallace by Michael Shermer
Call Number: QH31 .W2 S53 2002
from the book jacket: "Alfred Russel Wallace, an eminent scientist who stood out among his Victorian peers as a man of formidable mind and equally outsized personality, was the co-discoverer of natural selection with Charles Darwin..."

Additional Lectures in this series from Dr. William B. Ashworth Jr. 2009:

Darwin Correspondence Project
"On this site you can read and search the full texts of more than 7,500 of Charles Darwin’s letters, and ﬁnd information on 7,500 more. Available here are complete transcripts of all known letters Darwin wrote and received up to the year 1869. More are being added all the time."
Darwin Online
One of several collections of the writings of Charles Darwin. This site is edited by science historian Dr. John van Wyhe.
Works of Charles Darwin: Project Gutenberg
Linda Hall Library: the Grandeur of Life
"Building on the exhibition, The Grandeur of Life: A Celebration of Charles Darwin and the Origin of Species, this collection of images contains selected illustrations of animals, plants, and fossils, drawn from books and journals published between 1485 and 1870. Many of these are among the most impressive and attractive natural illustrations ever printed. Authors and artists include John James Audubon, John Gould, Conrad Gesner, Gilbert White, Georges Cuvier, Alfred Russel Wallace, Edward Lear, Thomas Pennant, and, of course, Charles Darwin, along with scores of others."