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answers.span_text: Charles Darwin
questions: who wrote the book the origin of species
name: On the Origin of Species
contexts: On the Origin of Species The title page of the 1859 edition of On the Origin of Species Author Charles Darwin Country United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Language English Subject Natural selection Evolutionary biology Published 24 November 1859 ( John Murray ) Media type Print ( Hardback ) Pages 502 OCLC 352242 Preceded by On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties ; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection Followed by Fertilisation of Orchids