jan 1, 1800 - Historical Context

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The Victorian era. Industrialization brings overcrowding, poverty, and crime to cities across Europe and North America. Newspapers create a mass public fascinated by crime. The telegraph and photography emerge. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species (1859), changing how humanity thinks about biology. Medicine advances rapidly. This is the golden age of forensic science's foundations.

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