Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, The

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THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES CHARLES DARWIN was born at Shrewsbury in 1809 and educated at Shrewsbury Grammar School, at Edinburgh University, and Christ? College, Cambridge. He took his degree in 1831 and in the same year embarked on a five-year voyage on HMS Beagle as a naturalist; the purpose of the voyage was to chart the coasts of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, and to carry a chain of chronometric readings round the world. While he was away some of his letters on scientific matters had been priv…