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Nature 446, 478-479 (29 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/446478a; Published online 28 March 2007
Darwin and the 20-year publication gap
Lucy Odling-Smee
Did Darwin delay publishing his theory of evolution by natural selection because he feared an outcry from the establishment? This has been a popular belief, and has been stoked by the fact that although Darwin began formulating the theory in 1837, he did not publish On the Origin of Species until 1859.
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