On the Origin of the Species

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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Charles Darwin

On the Origin of the Species

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Topic

Natural selection Evolution

Author

Charles Darwin

Source

On the Origin of the Species

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1859 1850s 19th century

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Original Citation

Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of the Species. London: John Murray, 1859, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Darwin, Charles. The Origin of the Species, edited by William Bynum. Penguin, 2009, ch. 3.