Endnote 2 – Uncovering Nineveh

When Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859) appeared, this apparent conflict between science and religion became a crisis. However, earlier writers, including Darwin’s grandfather Erasmus Darwin, had broached some of the evolutionary ideas that Charles Darwin consolidated evidence for and applied to living species in terms of the theory of natural selection. One of Charles Darwin’s younger contemporaries, Alfred Russel Wallace, also independently formulated the theory of natural selection shortly before Darwin published Origin.