2009

Happy Birthday, Charles!

 

"Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created. This view has been ably maintained by many authors. Some few naturalists, on the other hand, have believed that species undergo modification, and that the existing forms of life are the descendants by true generation of pre existing forms."

(from: Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species, 6th ed, Preface, 1872 )