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One reason is that he planned a very large and evidence packed book but while he went slowly toward this Alfred Russel Wallace came up with a very similar theory, so Darwin published what he considered an abstract. Another reason was that Darwin knew very well that religious, and to a lesser extent, opposition to what was called '' transformation '' of species.

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