Charles Darwin (1809–1882) was a British naturalist who proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection in On the Origin of Species (1859), transforming biology and the human sciences permanently.
Theory of evolution by natural selection—the foundational unifying theory of biology and one of the most consequential ideas in intellectual history.
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