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Origin

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Darwin’s most famous work, Origin, had an inauspicious beginning. It grew out of his wish to establish priority for the species theory he had spent over twenty years researching. Darwin never intended to write Origin, and had resisted suggestions in 1856…

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  • … make a large-sized pamphlet. ’ On the 4 October, in a letter to T. C. Eyton explaining his change …
  • … buoyed up in January 1859, when he received a (now lost) letter from Wallace, expressing …
  • … his friend George Frederick Pollock. The former, in a long letter to Murray, believed that Darwin …

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