TY - BOOK AU - Darwin,Charles TI - On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition) AV - QH PY - 2007/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Evolution (Biology) KW - Natural selection N1 - Project Gutenberg has several editions of this eBook: #1228 (1859, 1st Edition, HTML file with table of contents) #22764 (1860, HTML file with table of contents) #2009 (6th Ed., HTML, definitive edition); Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_Species; Release date is 2007-09-25; Steven Gibbs, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" by Charles Darwin is a work of scientific literature published in 1859. This foundational text introduced the theory that populations evolve through natural selection, presenting evidence that life's diversity arose from common descent through branching evolution. Drawing on Darwin's research and Beagle expedition findings, the book challenged prevailing beliefs about unchanging species and humanity's unique place in nature, sparking intense scientific, philosophical, and religious debate that transformed biology forever. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22764 ER -