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Linnean Society celebrates seminal evolution papers

Nature volume 454, pages 14–15 (2008)Cite this article

This week 150 years ago, papers by British naturalists Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace were read at the Linnean Society of London, proposing a radical theory that would remove humanity from the centre of creation: the evolution of all life by a process of natural selection.

On Tuesday, society members recreated the 1 July 1858 reading at the Royal Academy on Piccadilly. Darwin went on to develop his idea, publishing his seminal work On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859, whereas Wallace slipped into relative obscurity (see Nature 453, 1188–1190; 2008).

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