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(Collector's Edition.) By Charles Darwin. 470 pp., illustrated. Norwalk, Conn., The Easton Press, 1997. $43.25. No ISBN.

The Origin of Species is the most radical reconfiguration of our place in the universe — as individuals and as a single species — since Moses brought down the Torah from Sinai. It remains today what it was on the day it was published in 1859: a model of clear thinking and close observation, a set of predictions that seem to be borne out by experiment whenever they have been tested, and a vision of our origin that offers us no hope of finding purpose or perfectibility in the biology of our species, or in that of any other.

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