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Article: Wellesley College Celebrates 200 Years of Charles Darwin.
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- February 10, 2009
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Byline: Wellesley College
WELLESLEY, Mass., Feb. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- "On the Origin of Species" - Charles Darwin's ground-breaking book describing how evolution occurs by natural selection - changed everything, according to Olivia Judson, an evolutionary biology blogger for The New York Times.
"Before the 'Origin,' the diversity of life could only be catalogued and described; afterwards, it could be explained and understood," Judson wrote. "Before the 'Origin,' species were generally seen as fixed entities, the special creations of a deity; afterwards, they became connected together on a great family tree that stretches back, across billions of ...