Charles Darwin fought for lower price of Origin of Species so working class could afford it
Charles Darwin negotiated a reduction in the price of The Origin of Species with his publisher after receiving letters from working-class tradesmen unable to afford its early editions. Darwin's seminal work, published in 1859, was the first to explain the role of natural selection as the basic cause …
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