…who wrote the anonymous, scathing review of ‘On the Origin of Species’?
How do we know it was Owen?
joseph dalton hooker
01-Jul-1858: Darwin goes public
Charles Darwin finally went public with his theory of evolution by means of Natural Selection on 1st July 1858.
What I would tell Darwin
...were he miraculously to return to the Land of the Living.
Lumpers v Splitters
When is a giraffe not a giraffe?
18-Jun-1858: Wallace’s bombshell
On 18th June 1858, Charles Darwin received the biggest bombshell of his scientific career: it looked as if he was about to be scooped!