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On the Origin of Species outlines Charles Darwin's world-changing theory that life on Earth had not been brought into being by a creator, but had arisen from a single common ancestor and had evolved over time through the process of natural selection.
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This is one of the two or three most influential science books ever published.Ā But unlike the case with other science books, The Origin, published in 1859, is also of profound political importance.Ā Part of this political importanceāthe implications of Darwin's theory for religious explanations of the diversity of life, which I call "outside" politicsāis familiar to all socially-aware citizens. But there is much less awareness of the "inside" politics of evolutionāthe political implications of controversies within the science of evolutionary biology founded by Darwin.Ā Of course, to understand both the inside and outside politics, you must read muchā¦
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