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History of ideas · Sixth form / stretch

On the Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

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Darwin builds an explanation by connecting observations from breeding, variation and the distribution of living things. Read a selected argument as part of the history of science, identify the inference made from its examples, and compare it with what later genetics adds to the account.

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