"One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw a third and new kind, which I could not bear to lose, so I popped the one which I held in my right hand into my mouth. Alas! it ejected some intensely acrid fluid, which burnt my tongue so that I was forced to spit the beetle out, which was lost, as was the third one."

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Charles Darwin was an English naturalist who developed the theory of evolution by natural selection. His 1859 book On the Origin of Species became a foundational work in modern biology.

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