About the origin of species

The giant work of Charles Darwin, revealing the theory of evolution on the basis of natural selection and at the same time - the diary of a suburban traveler who visited South America, in the Galopagos Islands and Australia. In addition to the fact that this is scientific work with examples, evidence and conclusions. This is also an interesting material about living nature, stories about the features of physiology and behavior of living beings.
It is curious to contemplate a densely overgrown shore, covered with numerous, diverse plants, birds singing in bushes, insects fluttering around, worms crawling in damp ground, and think that all these perfectly constructed forms that differ from another and one other and So difficult from the other dependent, were created, thanks to the laws, also now acting around us.
These laws in the broadest sense are growth and reproduction, heredity, variability, depending on the direct or indirect action of life conditions.
Production progression, so high that it leads to the struggle for life and its consequence - the natural selection, which entails the discrepancy between the signs and the extinction of less perfect forms.
Thus, from the war of nature, from hunger and death, the highest result, which mind is able to imagine, is the formation of higher animals