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How old is the earth?
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One of Darwin’s chief difficulties in making converts to his views, was convincing a sceptical public, and some equally sceptical physicists, that there had been enough time since the advent of life on earth for the slow process of natural selection to…
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … volume), drawing Darwin, Hooker, and the botanist Charles James Fox Bunbury into the discussion of …
- … arguments, such as that of the Scottish autodidact James Croll, who traced the glacial epoch to a …
- … made by the editor of the Quarterly Journal of Science , James Samuelson, in his letter of 8 …
- … One of the officers on the Beagle voyage, Bartholomew James Sulivan, wrote on 25 December of …
