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Throughout high school and college I was taught the same thing about the history of science. Young earth creationists had a stranglehold on explanations for life’s origins until the fateful year of 1859 when Charles Darwin convinced all but the most ardent fundamentalists that evolution by means of natural selection was a reality. It is a neat and tidy story, a tale in which one book changes the world forever, and it is completely wrong.
As I started to dig deeper into the history of science I found a complex story which I had never heard about before. Evolutionary ideas were percolating among naturalists well before 1859, and Darwin certainly did not have the last word on how organisms evolved. Indeed, there is a great span of time, from 1860 through about 1950, which is often ignored in popular summaries of evolutionary thought. That is because those are the years between the publication of On the Origin of Species and the establishment of the modern evolutionary synthesis, a time during when the mechanisms by which life evolved were in doubt.
[The historian Peter Bowler has published two accessible summaries of this time, The Eclipse of Darwinism and The Non-Darwinian Revolution. Additionally, for a discussion of evolutionary science in Victorian England bracketing 1859 see Adrian Desmond’s Archetypes and Ancestors.]
I find this time especially interesting. Darwin’s work had legitimized evolution as a topic worthy of study, but...
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The variety of spices makes food more palatable. Thus, eating becomes a pleasure.