Darwin Publishes Origin: Evolution Changes Everything
Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, presenting twenty years of accumulated evidence for evolution by natural selection in prose accessible to general readers. The entire first printing of 1,250 copies sold out on the first day, and within two decades the scientific establishment accepted evolution as fact, permanently displacing the idea that species were fixed creations.
November 24, 1859
167 years ago
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