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| I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection. |
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| 1809–82, English naturalist, b. Shrewsbury; grandson of Erasmus Darwin. He firmly established the theory of organic evolution known as Darwinism.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.) |
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- WORKS
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- The Origin of Species
The revolutionary theory of evolution. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XI.
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- The Voyage of the Beagle
Popular account of a five-year journey of geological, botanical, biological and paleontological observation. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXIX.
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- Bartlett’s Darwin Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
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- Darwin, Charles, 15780 to 15785
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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- WRITINGS ABOUT DARWIN
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- “Darwin,” “The Origin of Species”
Sections by the A. E. Shipley with bibliography from the Cambridge History of English Literature.
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