Happy 150th Birthday Natural Selection!

On 1 July 1858, 150 years ago today, the idea of natural selection was first presented to the public in a reading of Darwin's and Wallace's papers at the Linnean Society of London.

The Beagle Project Blog has a nice writeup on it.

I am a proud owner of a copy of Darwin's seminal book "On the Origin of Species" (not a signed copy of course), where he introduced the idea that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection.

I have also read his "The Voyage of the Beagle", a wonderful book where he recounts his travels aboard the Beagle, having visited in part my birth country of Argentina.