title: The Origin of Species
author:  Charles Darwin 
description: Charles Darwin, a revolutionary British geologist and naturalist, laid the foundation for both the modern theory of evolution and the principle of common descent by the mechanism of natural selection.
zlib_text: On the Origin of Species
  by Charles Darwin
  A digital edition of 1859 London Origin of Species
  Adam M. Goldstein, editor
  
  On the Origin of Species
  
  On the Origin of Species
  by Charles Darwin
  A digital edition of the 1859 London Origin of Species
  Adam M. Goldstein, editor
  “Now let us see how this principle of great beneﬁt being derived from divergence
  of character, combined with the principles of natural selection and of extinction,
  will tend to act. . . . The accompanying diagram will aid us in understanding
  this rather perplexing subject.”
  Darwin Manuscripts Project
  David Kohn, General Editor
  Adam M. Goldstein, Associate Editor
  American Museum of Natural History
  New York, 2011
  http://darwin.amnh.org
  
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  The origin of species : a digital edition of the 1859 London
  Origin of Species / by Charles Darwin ; Adam M. Goldstein,
  editor.
  New York : American Museum of Natural History, 2011.
  1 fig., xxxii + 298 pp.
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