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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.
—The Origin of Species. Chap. iii.
Charles Robert
Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin
 
1809–82, English naturalist, b. Shrewsbury; grandson of Erasmus Darwin. He firmly established the theory of organic evolution known as Darwinism.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.)
 
Pronunciation:  där´wn from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
 
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WORKS
 
The Origin of Species
The revolutionary theory of evolution. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XI.
 
The Voyage of the Beagle
Popular account of a five-year journey of geological, botanical, biological and paleontological observation. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXIX.
 
Bartlett’s Darwin Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
 
Darwin, Charles, 15780 to 15785
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
 
 
WRITINGS ABOUT DARWIN
 
“Darwin,” “The Origin of Species”
Sections by the A. E. Shipley with bibliography from the Cambridge History of English Literature.
 
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