On November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin’s famous work ‘On the Origin of Species’ was published.
Darwin was an English naturalist born on February 12, 1809 in Shrewsbury, England. In 1831, at the age of 22, Darwin sailed across the Atlantic Ocean on a British royal navy ship called the HMS Beagle, as a naturalist. During his time at sea, he collected samples of plants, animals, and fossils from many regions. The data helped him come to the conclusion that the diversity of life arose by common descent. He wrote ‘The Voyage of the Beagle’ upon his return in 1836.
His second book ‘On the Origin of Species’ was published in November, 1859 and proposed the theory that species evolve over the course of time through a process of natural selection. Darwin contends that all species descend from common ancestors and that the preservation of species takes place by means of natural selection in the struggle for life.
Even today the schools of creationism and evolution are locked in an ongoing debate over which theory is more accurate.
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