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By Charles Darwin
Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
- Source
- On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, first edition, 1859 · Chapter XIV, Conclusion, p. 488
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- Internet Archive (scan of the 1859 first edition, London: John Murray)
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From the closing pages of On the Origin of Species, first edition (London: John Murray, 1859). It is Darwin's only mention of human origins in the book. Twelve years later he wrote The Descent of Man.