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"On the Origin of Species" is Charles Darwin's landmark book that explains the theory of evolution and the process of natural selection, fundamentally changing the understanding of life science.

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"On the Origin of Species" is a famous book written by Charles Darwin in 1859. 📚It explains how plants and animals change over time through a process called evolution. Darwin studied many living things during his travels, especially on the Galápagos Islands, which are located in the Pacific Ocean. 🏝️ He observed how different species adapted to their environments, and these observations helped him form his ideas about natural selection. This book changed how we understand life on Earth! 🌍

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In the 1800s, people began to wonder about how living things changed.

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Darwin pictured shortly before publication

Cuvier's 1799 paper on living and fossil elephants helped establish the reality of extinction.

In mid-July 1837 Darwin started his "B" notebook on Transmutation of Species, and on page 36 wrote "I think" above his first evolutionary tree.

Darwin researched how the skulls of different pigeon breeds varied, as shown in his Variation of Plants and Animals Under Domestication of 1868.

A photograph of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) taken in Singapore in 1862

Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0

On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 2nd edition. By Charles Darwin, John Murray, London, 1860. National Museum of Scotland.

American botanist Asa Gray (1810–1888)

John Gould's illustration of Darwin's rhea was published in 1841. The existence of two rhea species with overlapping ranges influenced Darwin.

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In the 1800s, people began to wonder about how living things changed. Before Darwin, many believed that each kind of plant and animal was created exactly as it is. 🌱🔍 Darwin set sail on the HMS Beagle in 1831 and traveled for five years. He explored places like South America and the

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