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Daily Archives: November 24, 2009

Happy Birthday, Origin

Textbook HistoryBy Ronald LadouceurNovember 24, 20091 Comment

November 24, 2009 As we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, I thought I’d take the opportunity to note that though the image of Darwin we share today, that tired but steadfast symbol of rationality and science, dates back only to the 1950s, not 1850s (see Janet…

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