All his life, Charles Darwin hated controversy. Yet he takes his
place among the Giants of Science for what remains an immensely
controversial subject: the theory of evolution. Darwin began
piecing together his explanation for how all living things
change or adapt during his five-year voyage on HMS Beagle. But
it took him twenty years to go public, for fear of the
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