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On this day, August 20, 1858, Charles Darwin first published his theory of evolution through natural selection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_20• 1858 – Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.