On the Origin of Species (nonfiction)
On the Origin of Species (or more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life), published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.
Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. It presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution.
Darwin included evidence that he had gathered on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s and his subsequent findings from research, correspondence, and experimentation.
In the News
Not Charles Darwin is a television series which explores ideas wrongly attributed to English naturalist, geologist, and biologist Charles Darwin.
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External links
- On the Origin of Species @ Wikipedia
Social media
- Post @ Twitter (5 April 2024) - “There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one…” —Darwin, "On the Origin of Species"
- Darwin and the Bible Meet in Creation Stories Class / A classicist on mythical and scientific accounts of how the world began @ Boston University
- His theory describes *subsequent* emergence of new species.