OTD in 1838, Charles Darwin read Malthus’s Principles of Population “for amusement.”

The idea of a “war of nature” was venerable, but D realized that such a war would tend to remove deleterious variations from populations. Natural selection would necessarily follow.

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OTD in 1854, Charles Darwin began sorting his notes in preparation for writing a treatise with the working title “Natural Selection.”

He would never publish the book, instead publishing a short “abstract”—titled “On the Origin of Species”—in 1859.

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OTD in 1854, Charles Darwin began sorting his notes in preparation for writing a treatise with the working title “Natural Selection.”

He would never publish the book, instead publishing a short “abstract”—titled “On the Origin of Species”—in 1859.

🐋🌱 #HistSTM #evolbio 🧪