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Photo credit: Arne and Bent Larsen or A./B. Larsen, CC BY-SA 2.5 DK <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/dk/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Charles Darwin’s Freudian Slip

It looks like Darwin was as impressed as everyone else by the amazing ingenuity in orchids and could not ignore the evidence for design. Read More ›
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Photo: Orchids, by Arne and Bent Larsen or A./B. Larsen, CC BY-SA 2.5 DK <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/dk/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin’s Most Important Book?

Darwin was not at all unsure about the value of his orchid book. He viewed it as presenting the most convincing case for natural selection that he could make. Read More ›
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Photo: Darwin statute at the Natural History Museum, by Alan Perestrello, via Flickr (cropped).

Darwin’s Reticence: How on Earth Did the Origin of Species Ever Get Published?

Even Darwin would be aghast at what the world has made of a mere abstract that he was almost pathologically ambivalent about ever publishing. Read More ›
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Photo: Visitors admire the iconic Darwin statue at London's Natural History Museum, by Thomas Fabian, via Flickr.

Devil’s Chaplain: Evolution as a “Theological Research Program”

This stands the standard historiography and received wisdom concerning the development of modern evolutionary theory on its head. Read More ›
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Darwin’s Origin of Species — Some Historical Reflections 160 Years Later

Surely the “iconic” status of Darwin’s book could never have been predicted by either the author or his publisher. Read More ›

Check Out These Surprising Early Reviews of A.N. Wilson’s Darwin Biography!

We’re still more than a month out from the U.S. release of Wilson’s Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker. Read More ›
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Ouch: A Slashing New Anti-Darwin Biography from Darwin’s Own Publisher

The English literacy critic and biographer A.N. Wilson is a brilliant writer. We’ve been aware for some time that he’s a Darwin skeptic, too. Read More ›

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