On 7th November 1913, the man who independently (along with Charles Darwin) came up with the idea of Natural Selection, Alfred Russel Wallace, died, age 90, at his home in Dorset.
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Evergreen articles for November.
02-Nov-1859: Darwin is infinitely pleased with his ‘child’
On 2nd November 1859, Charles Darwin’s publisher, John Murray, sent him a specimen copy of the first edition of On the Origin of Species. Darwin was delighted with ‘the appearance of my child’. The book was published later that month.