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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin - From The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin - Edited by his Son Francis Darwin - Charles Robert Darwin, FRS (12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and in a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding. Darwin published his theory of evolution with compelling evidence in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts of transmutation of species. By the 1870s the scientific community and much of the general public had accepted evolution as a fact. However, many favoured competing explanations and it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensus developed in which natural selection was the basic mechanism of evol

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Author

Darwin, Professor Charles

Publisher

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781495375040

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Biography, Humanities