Charles Darwin (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
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In 1859 Darwin published On the Origin of Species, the first of a series of texts explaining the role of natural selection in the evolution of biological species. Central to his theory was a search for a mechanism of evolution; he also suggested that humans and other primates evolved from common ancestors. Darwin’s ideas were formulated primarily from his travels on the Beagle, a British ship that had sailed on a five-year voyage around the world during the 1830’s in order to map the globe and to collect flora and fauna. When Darwin published...
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