The publication of Charles Darwin's The ORIGIN of SPECIES in 1859 marked a dramatic turning point in scientific thought, but it also ignited a firestorm of controversy.
More than two decades following his intercontinental voyage aboard the HMS Beagle, the English naturalist carefully advanced his theory of evolution by natural selection, offering coherent and highly readable views of adaptation, survival of the fittest, and other concepts that form the foundation of modern evolutionary theory.
The publication of Charles Darwin's The ORIGIN of SPECIES in 1859 marked a dramatic turning point in scientific thought, but it also ignited a firestorm of controversy