The Origin of Species - Abridged Author:Charles Robert Darwin, Philip Appleman (Editor) As much as any man in the modern era, Charles Darwin changed man's thinking. His influence is still felt in each of our lives, and yet a relative handful of educated persons have read his major work, largely due to its excessive and now outmoded detail. Here, in what Paul Moody, writing in Victorian Studies, has called a "masterl... more »y condensation," is an edition of Darwin's The Origin of Species which retains all of the substance but none of the excess. Philip Appleman has cut deftly to the essence of Darwin's classic, losing none of the continuity or flavor of the original, and at last making available an edition which modern readers will not find overpowering. Professor Appleman's introduction properly traces Darwin's life and influence in the world of ideas. « less