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He collected evidence from fossils, living organisms, and geographic distribution. His core result was that populations change over generations through descent with modification.\n\n## Primary Works and Passages\n\nThe main work is *On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life* (1859, John Murray). Key passage from Chapter III: \"Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual of any species, in its infinitely complex relations to other organic beings and to external nature, will tend to the preservation of that individual, and will generally be inherited by its offspring.\" This states the mechanism of heritable variation plus differential survival.\n\n## Convergence Patterns Touched\n\nThe work maps to the grain at the biological scale. 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