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The evolution of a misquotation
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We gave you six things Darwin never said (despite what you may read elsewhere). None of the fake soundbites is more insidious than the first: It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is…
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- … We gave you six things Darwin never said (despite what you may read elsewhere). …
- … Academy of Sciences (though the original attribution to Darwin has since been removed). …
- … on Nick’s blog , the source is the writings of Leon C. Megginson, Professor of Management and …
- … Megginson wrote in 1963: According to Darwin’s Origin of Species, it is not the most …
- … Southwestern Social Science Quarterly (1963) 44(1): 3-13, at p. 4. (A similar version is in …
- … things I heard him say went something like this: Charles Darwin didn’t say that only the strong …
- … the Russian zoologist Karl Kessler, and his statements about Darwin clearly reflect that. At …
- … This fake quote started life as a discussion of Darwin’s views in a 1960s textbook, Civilisation …
- … the earlier textbook) in The Living Clocks , by Ritchie R. Ward (1971), and escaped into the wild …
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From J. D. Hooker 26[–7] February 1868KewFeby 26th/68Dear Darwin I have been bursting with impatience to hear what you would say of the Athenæum Review & who wrote it— I could not conceive who…
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- … February 1868 Kew Feby 26 th /68 Dear Darwin I have been …
- … has “covered itself with infamy”.— The G. C. article is weak, watery— It is hard to decide …
- … i.e. where furthest removed from the action of light air &c, (as Spermatic cells) or in the most …
- … … doctrines— 3.12] double scored red crayon 3.13 or at least … qualities—] double scored …
- … Letter details From Hooker, J. D. To Darwin, C. R. Sent from Kew …
