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2 - Charles Robert Darwin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2024

Michael Ruse
Michael Ruse
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Florida State University
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A brief introduction to the life of Charles Darwin and his discovery of the causal role of natural selection in explaining evolutionary change. The effect of the publication of Robert Chambers’s Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, the long delay and the publication in 1859 of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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Darwinevolutionnatural selectionRobert ChambersVestigesOrigin of Species
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Charles Darwin
No Rebel, Great Revolutionary
 , pp. 20 - 35
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Charles Robert Darwin
  • Michael Ruse, Florida State University
  • Book: Charles Darwin
  • Online publication: 05 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009438971.003
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  • Charles Robert Darwin
  • Michael Ruse, Florida State University
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009438971.003
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  • Charles Robert Darwin
  • Michael Ruse, Florida State University
  • Book: Charles Darwin
  • Online publication: 05 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009438971.003
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