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The Kiwi's Egg: Charles Darwin and natural selection
From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20080518
Author:BRANDON ROBSHAW
By David Quammen Phoenix Pounds 7.99
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Darwin came up with the theory of evolution, right? Wrong. Evolution, if not in the scientific mainstream, was part of the common intellectual currency of his time. His own grandfather espoused a version of it. What Darwin proposed was the blind, purposeless and godless mechanism by which it worked: natural selection.
Quammen pays due attention to Darwin's other scientific achievements: his naturalist's observations from the Beagle voyage, his research on barnacles and worms, and his foray into geology. He also presents an acute but sympathetic ...
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