EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The genesis of Charles Darwin’s book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (1859) is well known, and the changes that it underwent in subsequent editions are well documented.

Detailed explanation-2: -2 C. Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (John Murray, London, 1859). The study of Darwin, his work and his influence did not, of course, start in 1959.

Detailed explanation-3: -Darwin’s book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. The book presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution.

Detailed explanation-4: -Charles Darwin’s natural selection letter In this letter Darwin writes to Alfred Russel Wallace, a fellow naturalist and professional specimen collector. It was Wallace who independently developed a theory of evolution by natural selection, thus prompting Darwin to first publish an outline of his theory.

Detailed explanation-5: -Darwin’s first two, relatively complete, explicit articulations of his theorizing on evolution were his Essay of 1844 and On the Origin of Species published in 1859.