ENGLISH LITERATURE (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: -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-3: -Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology is the author of ‘The Origin of Species’. Darwin’s book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection.

Detailed explanation-4: -The book presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution. Darwin included evidence that he had collected on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s and his subsequent findings from research, correspondence, and experimentation.

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.