The nineteenth century saw the dawn of many scientific theories and discoveries, from fields such as geology, chemistry, and medicine. Of the theories that had the most impact on society, Charles Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection had one of the largest impacts due to the way it opposed nearly everything Victorian England believed in. For an entire population to be told that creationism was most likely untrue and that humans evolved from lower primates over a period of millions of years was very upsetting or unbelievable. Like all new scientific theories, Darwin had to face hefty opposition from the scientific world that was still questioning evolution and development through the works of
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