Origin of Species – Charles Darwin

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By means of natural selection or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life. The theory that shook the world. Few other books have created such a lasting storm of controversy as this book.

Darwin’s theory that species derive from other species by a gradual evolutionary process and that the average level of eachspecies is heightened by the “”survival of the fittest”” stirred up popular debate to fever pitch. Its acceptance revolutionized the course of science.