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Quote by Charles Darwin

“I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.”

Quote by Charles Darwin

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Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, is renowned as the founder of evolutionary biology. Born on February 12, 1809, in England, he passed away on April 19, 1882. Darwin is best known for his research on the theory of evolution, which proposed that species evolve through natural selection and survival of the fittest. more

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