English Literature / Unit 15 ENL 1430 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Charles Darwin as a Writer
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The idea
Darwin's On the Origin of Species, published on the twenty-fourth of November eighteen fifty-nine, set out evolution by natural selection, building its case from observations such as the breeding of pigeons. Its argument reshaped Victorian thought on nature and faith.
In practice
Evidence, then a theory.
Where people slip
Darwin's book is literature and science.
Your place on the trail
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