Who wrote the book he origin of species?
The Origin of Species (full title: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life) by British naturalist CHARLES DARWIN, first published on 24 November 1859, is one of the pivotal works in scientific history and arguably the pre-eminent work in biology.
Darwin was a naturalist who studied first medicine and then theology and came up with the Theory of Evolution. Darwin was born in 1809, at Shrewsbury, Shropshire, the son of a physician with a substantial local practice. He was educated at Shrewsbury School but proved to be an uninspired student, preferring to pass his time in the collection of botanical specimens. At the age of sixteen, he was sent to Edinburgh University to study medicine but his progress in this field was equally lethargic. Most of his time was spent studying marine biology on the Firth of Forth and learning the system of categorisation of plants. Fearing that the young Darwin would have no professional career, his father enrolled him at Christ’s College, Cambridge to read theology, in the hope that he would become a cleric. The clergy in the Nineteenth Century were known for their indulgence in the study of natural history as a part of God’s creation and as an outlet for their abundant free time. At Cambridge, Darw
