About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Beetle literature, Coleopterists, Henry Walter Bates, Charles Darwin, Australian Dung Beetle Project, George Bornemissza, David Sharp, Horace Donisthorpe, List of coleopterists, Anthony Adrian Allen, Evelyn Cheesman, Thomas Blackburn, William Weekes Fowler, Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall, Thomas Vernon Wollaston, Gaston Ruter, Edmund Reitter, H. E. Hinton, Norman H. Joy, Cardale Babington, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe, George Charles Champion, Melchior de Lisle, Herbert Edward Andrewes, George Robert Crotch, Charles Kerremans, Hippolyte Louis Gory, Carl Henrik Boheman, Gilbert John Arrow, Ludwig Redtenbacher, Maurice Pic, James Thomson, Sylvain Auguste de Marseul, American Beetles, Coleopteres, Michael C. Thomas, Roy Crowson, Petr vacha, Terry Erwin, Caspar Erasmus Duftschmid, Eugene Barthe, Malcolm Cameron, Alphonse Hustache, Stephan von Breuning, Joseph Sugar Baly, Carl Gustav Jablonsky, A Practical Handbook of British Beetles, Johann Gottlieb Kugelann, Henry Stephen Gorham, Leon Fairmaire, Max Bernhauer, Louis Prosper Cantener, Henry Frederick Strohecker, Carlo Alonza, The Coleopterist, Hermann Rudolph Schaum, Elytron. Excerpt: Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection. He published his theory with compelling evidence for evolution in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts of transmutation of species. By the 1870s the scientific community and much of the general public accepted evolution as a fact. However, many favoured competing explanations and ...
