Take a closer look at nine highlights from the collections we care for, including Darwin’s favourite octopus and a rare first edition of his book, On the Origin of Species. While on HMS Beagle, Darwin ...

before having his idea presented publicly to a small audience of scientists and then, a year later, to a wide, astonished popular readership in his majestic On the Origin of Species, first ...

on the transmutation of species, but was often interrupted ... "It was from the first highly successful. The first small edition of 1250 copies was sold on the day of publication, and a second ...

All viewers of this document can see this public note. This is the most explicit and concise description and definition of natural selection in On the Origin of Species. Darwin’s view here is ...

thus species are multiplied" (Darwin 1859, p. 120). Discussion of most topics within Evolutionary Biology begins with Darwin. Indeed, On The Origin of Species (1859) continues to influence much of ...