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The Complete Works of Charles Darwin have been collected on a single website. http://www.darwin-literature.com/ Here are some excerpts from the front page introductory comments - Charles Darwin "Darwin's "On the Origin Of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races on the Struggle of Life" , was published on November 24, 1859, and sold out immediately. It was followed by five more editions in his lifetime. The expression "survival of the fittest" did not originate from Darwin's work. Herbert Spencer had already used it in his books about evolutionary philosophy. Though he later described our common ancestor as "a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears," Darwin did not do so in the famous On the Origin of Species.      . . . . Darwin home Darwin's mother died when he was eight years old, and he was brought up by his sister. In 1827 he started theology studies at Christ...