As part of hosting the art exhibit Endless Forms: Darwin, Natural Science & the Arts (opening June 16th), the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England is doing a series of podcasts. First up, Jim Secord (historian of science and director of the Darwin Correspondence Project, on “Darwin and the Ancient Earth: Dinosaurs and the ‘Deep Past’ in the 19th-Century Imagination”:
Why was the young Darwin’s fascination with geology so important for his later work? And why was prehistory so popular in early nineteenth-century Britain?
Download or listen online (with a slideshow) here.
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It seems that no one on this site is mentioning William Charles Wells and Patrick Matthew.Yet both Darwin and Wallace admitted that they beat them both to them to the idea of natural selection.If Darwin can accept that he did not origninate the idea of natural selection,why is it so difficult for Darwinophiles to do the same? Search Google for “wainwrightscience” and the associated link to the Dawkins website.
PS Please do not quote Dawkins’ sophisms given in Bill Bryson’s latest book ;it is ridiculous for Dawkins to state that Matthew did not recognise the significance of his work!