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Analysis of Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species

In the Book On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, he presents us with the theory of natural selection. This theory is his attempt at an explanation on how his world and its species came to be the way that we know them now. Darwin writes on how through a process of millions of years, through the effects of man and the effects of nature, species have had a trial and error experiment ongoing. It is through these trials that the natural world had developed beneficial anomalies that at times seem too great to be the work of chance.
Darwin writes on how a species will adapt to its surrounding given enough time. When an animal gains a genetic edge over its competitors, be they of the same species or of another genus altogether, the animal has increased its chance of either procreation or adaptation. When this animal has this beneficial variance, the advantage becomes his and because of this, the trial is then passed on......

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