Darwin
General Chart shewing the principal tracks of H.M.S. Beagle – 1831-6
A Plan of the Island of Ascension
Darwin
p. 63 from Charles Darwin's On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects
p. 18-19 from Charles Darwin's On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. It 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 gathered on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s and his subsequent findings from research, correspondence, and experimentation.
