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The article currently states "Darwin, c. 1854 when he was working towards publication of On the Origin of Species", the inclusion of "the" should be added and it should read "Darwin, c. 1854 when he was working towards the publication of On the Origin of Species". The exclusion of "the" makes the sentence lack any grammatical sense and if you compare the use of with and without "the", the results prove my point.--James Joseph P. Smith (talk) 21:56, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
It makes grammatical sense either way, so edit warring over it is a Bad Thing. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 21:59, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
No it does not, the inclusion of "the" is required. The search of "working towards publication" produces around 14,300 results and "working towards the publication" produces around 29,800,000 results.--James Joseph P. Smith (talk) 22:04, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
There's nothing wrong with the grammar in phrases like "working towards publication" or "working towards acceptance". And see the literature:
Honestly, the latter sounds a bit clunky to me; the former, given the use of a caption, is perfectly fine for its intended use. Much like billboards and headlines, in captions articles can be dropped. — Javert2113 (talk) 22:09, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Simply being selective and only using scholars' use of omitting "the" in the sentence is an appeal to authority. Compare the overall results via Google. Excluding "the" makes the sentence awkward to read to say the least.--James Joseph P. Smith (talk) 22:15, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Let's compare the overall results via relevant Google searches, as above. - DVdm (talk) 22:21, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
As is often the case, the simplest solution was to reword the caption to avoid the disputed structure altogether — which I have done. General IzationTalk 22:25, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
I would like to add in the lede box, after 'Known for', The Decent of Man because this was an important and controversial work at the time, extending, as it does, evolution to homo sapiens. Any comments? American In Brazil (talk) 01:24, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
I would favour the addition of this work to the infobox, but its title would need to be spelt correctly: "The Descent of Man" rather than "The Decent of Man".
Not a great fan of infoboxes and they should be kept short, but The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex is next in priority for a place after Voyage and Origin. Reasonable to pipe it as The Descent of Man though that skips a central thesis. Oh, and CD was of course the most decent of men. . . dave souza, talk 10:46, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
Per the discussion above, I will add it. Thank you for pointing out my typo. I already knew Darwin was a 'decent' man from his 'descent'. American In Brazil (talk) 00:26, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
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MayI please edit i will add more facts. Lollypop312 (talk) 10:20, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
Not done. Improper formulation of edit request: "This template must be followed by a complete and specific description of the request, that is, specify what text should be removed and a verbatim copy of the text that should replace it. "Please change X" is not acceptable and will be rejected; the request must be of the form "please change X to Y"." - DVdm (talk) 10:28, 15 October 2018 (UTC)