On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

Introduction When on board H.M.S. ‘Beagle,’ as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me...

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My first meeting with Mr. Darwin was in 1839, in Trafalgar Square. I was walking with an officer who had been his shipmate for a short time in the Beagle seven years before, but who had not, I believe, since met him. I...

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

Introduction The nature of the following work will be best understood by a brief account of how it came to be written. During many years I collected notes on the origin or descent of man, without any intention of publishing on the subject, but...

Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, Under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N.

Chapter I: St. Jago—Cape de Verd Islands After having been twice driven back by heavy south-western gales, Her Majesty’s ship Beagle, a ten-gun brig, under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N., sailed from Devonport on the 27th of December, 1831. The object of...

The Making of A Celebrity

Darwin is dead. Dying in his seventy-third year, he had earned a great reputation before he was thirty, but it was in 1859, on the publication of his “Origin of Species,” that his name became so familiarly known all the world over. Announcement in ...

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Thanks for your noble work on ‘The Descent of Man’ which reached me this morning. It is strong as iron and clear as crystal so fascinating that it has kept me from church and even from dinner. It is beyond all praise and I can...