Charles Darwin
by National Library Of Medicine/science Photo Library
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Charles Darwin
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National Library Of Medicine/science Photo Library
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Photograph - Photograph
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Coloured lithograph of Charles Darwin (1809-1882), the British naturalist and author of the Origin of Species, aged forty. Darwin suggested that natural variation in a species creates a wide range of individual characteristics, some of which are more useful than others. The competition to survive in nature provides a driving force for evolution in the form of natural selection, a mechanism which weeds out those individuals possessing traits less suitable to the environment. The implications of his theory to man's own origins fuelled a bitter controversy with the christian orthodoxy. Lithograph by Thomas Herbert Maguire.
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October 3rd, 2018
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