He challenged the scientific understanding of how life on Earth evolved: triggering a scientific revolution that still generates debate today. Now 200 years after his birth we celebrate the work of the world’s greatest naturalist, Charles Darwin.

To mark this, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his revolutionary On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection, we are issuing six special stamps, a Miniature Sheet of four additional stamps and a Prestige Stamp Book.

We’ve created a radical ‘jigsaw’ design for each stamp to demonstrate how the various areas of Darwin’s studies – zoology, botany, geology, ornithology and anthropology – came together to inform his theory of Natural Selection.

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