About the book: 1957 / The brochure is a popular essay on the life and scientific work of one of the greatest naturalists of the 19th century, Charles Darwin. The author, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor S. L. Sobol, in a simple form accessible to the widest circles of readers, shows the significance of Darwin’s scientific works in geology and biology, and examines the history of the formation of Darwin’s evolutionary views. The brochure briefly outlines Darwin's materialistic evolutionary teachings, which dealt a crushing blow to metaphysical and religious ideas about the origin of plant and animal species and the original purposefulness of their structure and life activity..