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darwin: hooker, line, and sink or swim

…Darwin’s own account suggests that in part he owed the inspiration for his theory to reading T.R. Malthus’s Essay on Population which was written in 1798, though the dates in Darwin’s journal throw some doubt on this. Malthus’s essay purports … Continue reading

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darwin: build them and they will run

The man with the biggest club has all the fun… …As a book, The Origin of Species gains enormously from the range of interests that a natural scientist could still, in the mid-nineteenth century, allow himself. It is a work … Continue reading

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darwin: if only one could discern it

…Darwin had been struck during the voyage by a number of facts which seemed at odds with the special creation of each species. The organic life he studied so intensively and collected so assiduously seemed littered with clues, odd similarities, … Continue reading

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