"Students have great difficulty understanding Darwin's Origin --as do many trained biologists. Daniel Duzdevich's modern rendition of the 1859 text is a most useful addition to the general understanding of this major revision in biology. He has presented a full account of Darwin's ideas in the original and in a form that makes them far more understandable to the average person who is not a specialist in evolutionary theory." --Walter Brock, Columbia University "There is a long tradition of 'translating' or retelling works in the humanities--Charles Lamb's prose versions of Shakespeare's plays and the multiple renderings of the Bible into modern English come immediately to mind. This book may be a first for a scientific work, where an attempt is made to translate a text almost line-by-line and preserve each point in the original. Duzdevich has done a nice job indeed. Even for those who have read the Origin many times, this retelling has the ability to change one's focus, so to speak, and in so doing reinvigorate elements of the original text." --James T.

Costa, author of The Annotated Origin.