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How did a believing Christian, mediocre university student, and later chronically ill, stay-at-home English gentleman become the revolutionary scientist who not only turned biology on its head, but also philosophy and social science? This slide show will provide a short "biopict" of Charles Darwin, starting with his family origins, his haphazard university education, the five-year voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, and his subsequent lying relatively low for the next 23 years until the forced publication of On the Origin of Species. It will also outline the simple, but powerful, argument for Darwin’s “descent with modification” --today’s “evolution”-- that formed the backbone of his book. (Darwin is shown here at age 47, three years before publication of the Origin.)
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