# @worldscifest on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Bb5B59ngAkd
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/2460871-worldscifest-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/510fb5584c.jpg
- **Posted:** 2017-11-24T20:17:15.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** WorldScienceFestival (@WorldSciFest) — https://gondola.cc/WorldSciFest

## Caption

On this day in 1859, Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" was published. Above is the only illustration from the original edition: a lithographic diagram by William West, which demonstrates how the degree of similarities between a number of varieties and species is explained by descent from common ancestors. .
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