November 24th The Book that Upset Tennessee Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882). Origin of Species. Vol. 11, pp. 23-30 of The Harvard Classics The signal for the beginning of a great controversy, still raging, was the publication of Darwin's "Origin of Species." This was the first complete statement of the evolution theory, which had been privately advanced but never publicly taught. A new epoch in science dates from this great work. ("Origin of Species" published Nov. 24, 1859.)
