On this day in 1859 Charles Darwin’s magnum opus On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life was published.
A hundred and fifty years! My, how time flies…
Of course with this book we all began an inexorable shift in human thinking toward an understanding of evolutionary biology that would reframe how we understand ourselves and our relationship with the world.
Yes, there are foot-draggers and naysayers. I still recall the kerfuffle in past years about the Christian fish bumper sticker followed by the Darwin fish bumper sticker followed by the Christian fish eating the Darwin fish bumper sticker. I loved it. How Darwinian…
But while in our culture this is still a deal, in the real world we’re moving on and trying to figure out what this astonishing insight really means…
There’s an interesting story in today’s Times.
And, of course, for those inclined to go to original sources, here you go!
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