On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection Letter" from Darwin to Asa Gray. This was the first announcement of the Darwin – Wallace theory of evolution by natural selection; the papers appeared in print on 20 August 1858. The presentation of the papers spurred Darwin to write a condensed "abstract" of his "big book" on "Natural Selection". This was published in November 1859 as "On the Origin of Species". On the voyage of the "Beagle" the young Charles Darwin took a break between graduating and starting his career as a clergyman to study the natural history of South America, an interest he had developed at the University
The Origin of Species (The Outer Limits) next sentient species to arise could suffer the same fate, they built the ship to save a sample of that race before it wiped itself out, and protect it until it could repopulate the Earth. The ship extracted genetic material from the group students (and Hope) during the journey and created babies (modifying their genetics to avoid the dangers of inbreeding), creating a sufficient number of humans with enough genetic variation to repopulate the Earth. The Origin of Species (The Outer Limits) "The Origin of Species" is an episode of "The Outer Limits" television show. It was first broadcast on