But after Charles Darwin published his On the Origin of Species in 1859, the theory of evolution became one of the most controversial topics of the time. When American paleontologist O.C. Marsh ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural ... a doctor whose book ‘Zoonomia’ had set out a radical and highly controversial idea - that one species could 'transmute' into another.

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The grave of British naturalist Charles Darwin was defaced by climate activists ... actions have been widely influential-and particularly controversial. More from ARTnews.com ...

Charles Darwin was born in Shropshire ... He was exposed to new, and sometimes controversial, scientific ideas and theories in debates, talks and through student societies. However, he did ...

To one who bears in mind the too frequent tone of the controversies these works have ... and Selection in relation to Sex. By Charles Darwin, &c. In two volumes. Pp. 428, 475.