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- Edgar Allan Poe

_How often we forget all time, when lone

Admiring Nature's universal throne;

Her woods--her wilds--her mountains--the intense

Reply of Hers to Our intelligence!_

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Portending evil; ominous.

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Charles Darwin

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Charles Darwin

1809–1882BritishVictorian Science19th Century

Charles Darwin was an English naturalist whose work on evolution by natural selection transformed biology. His research drew on years of observation, including his voyage on HMS Beagle, and reshaped scientific understanding of how species change over time.