On the Origin of Species (or more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in
the Struggle for Life), published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific
literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary
biology. Darwin's book
introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process
of natural selection. It presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching
pattern of evolution.
Darwin included evidence that he had gathered on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s and his subsequent findings from
research, correspondence, and experimentation
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