There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
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Charles Darwin
British naturalist born in 1809 who built the theory of evolution by natural selection. On the Origin of Species unified the diversity of life under one framework, transforming biology.
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