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Christie's auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" found in a family's guest lavatory in Oxford, southern England.

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An egg collected by naturalist Charles Darwin on his voyage on HMS Beagle has been rediscovered at a museum.

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 Teach-In Celebrates Charles Darwin's Legacy

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In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150 year anniversary of publication of his Origin of the Species, Yale has created a webportal, Yale Celebrates Darwin.

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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (or Darwin Online) began in 2002 to assemble in one scholarly website all of Darwin's published writings and unpublished papers.

The site contains over 72,000 pages of searchable text and 179,000 electronic images. It contains at least one exemplar of all known Darwin publications, reproduced to the highest scholarly standards, both as searchable text and electronic images of the originals. Darwin Online is the largest and most widely used Darwin resource ever created. More copies of Darwins works have been downloaded from Darwin Online than were published in Darwins lifetime or in the whole of the 19th century.

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As the scientific world prepares to mark Charles Darwin's bicentenary, the author of On the Origin of Species is facing accusations of plagiarism and unjustly claiming credit as the father of evolutionary theory.
A group of critics has commissioned computer experts with specialised antiplagiarism software to scour Darwin's book, published in 1859, for similarities to a paper released the year before by Alfred Russel Wallace, a naturalist who worked for eight years in modern Indonesia.
Initial indications are that the analysis will show that some of the most important ideas in On the Origin of Species were taken from Wallace - in particular the idea that species with variations helping them to survive would thrive and pass on these features to their offspring.

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In a few weeks, on February 12 to be exact, the scientific world will be celebrating the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Darwin, the man whose theory of the gradual evolution of living things has changed the way in which most of us see the world in which we live.
Thanks to him, we see ourselves as part of nature, instead of separate from it and superior to it. If it weren't for him, we would not be concerned about the way we have, in our arrogant past, ravaged the small planet on which we live.

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Darwin's specimens go on display
Two mockingbirds, which are said to have helped Charles Darwin develop his theory on evolution, are to go on public display for the first time.
The specimens, gathered by Darwin from the Galapagos, are said to be the "catalyst" for his transmutation theory - how one species changes into another.

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A spokesman for the Anglican Church says it should admit it wronged Charles Darwin, whose theory of evolution is still considered anti-Christian in some circles, even as it's become a cornerstone of science.

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