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This transformative book introduced Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection to the world on November 24, 1859. The publisher initially agreed to print it without even reading the manuscript due to Darwin's secrecy, though sales proved to be impressive immediately upon release. The book was controversial because it suggested evolution occurred without a creator and included humans as just another species subject to evolutionary pressures.
On the Origin of Species, by means of natural selection or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life.
— Episode: History Daily: Darwin’s Origin of Specie...
Episode: History Daily: Darwin’s Origin of Species
This transformative book introduced Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection to the world on November 24, 1859. The publisher initially agreed to print it without even reading the manuscript due to Darwin's secrecy, though sales proved to be impressive immediately upon release. The book was controversial because it suggested evolution occurred without a creator and included humans as just another species subject to evolutionary pressures.
On the Origin of Species, by means of natural selection or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life.
From so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
In his 500-page book, Darwin is proposing that the vast variety of life on Earth has evolved from earlier forms of life.
Darwin's theory of natural selection seems to remove God entirely.
Darwin revised and rewrote On the Origin of Species multiple times.