Darwin, Charles - Point of Interest

2009: "This year marks the 150th anniversary of the most incendiary book in the history of science, and coincidentally, the 200th birthday of the mild-mannered Englishman who wrote it." (National Geographic, February 2009) The book, commonly called On the Origin of the Species is actually entitled On the Origin of the Speciesby Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, and made its presence known some 23 years after Darwin's travels to the Galapagos Islands from 1831 to 1836.