Celebrating Darwin
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Masterwork
Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was published on Nov. 24, 1859, and instantly became a best seller. Perhaps its most famous passage: "From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
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