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Samuel Haughton
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Meet Samuel Haughton, Darwin’s First Scientific Critic

Darwin reports Haughton’s verdict as having been that “all that was new in there was false, and what was true was old.” Read More ›
Labyrinth
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Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith: A Postscript

As is the case with the Biblical parables of Jesus, this one is entirely self-explanatory and needs no further comment from myself. Read More ›
Pope Pius IX
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Darwin and the Swinging 1860s

The threat which such thinking posed to theistic beliefs was not lost on the Roman Catholic Church when Pope Pius IX convened the First Vatican Council of 1869. Read More ›
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Darwin and Theomachy

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) provides the closest chronological fit with Darwin. Read More ›
L0003411 Mary Augusta, Mrs. Humphry Ward. Photograph by Barraud.
Photo: Mrs. Humphry Ward, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin and the Victorian Culture Wars

As Alec Ryrie pointed out in his history of Doubt, “intellectuals and philosophers may think they make the weather, but they are more often driven by it.” Read More ›
Sir Isaac Newton
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Darwin and the Newtonian Metanarrative

People chose to believe what they wanted to believe in obedience to the then reigning intellectual fashion. Read More ›
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Evolutionary Psychology: Checkered Past, Checkered Present

If we want to effectively explain human behavior in all its messy richness, we would do well to look beyond this box of just-so stories. Read More ›
Taking Leave of Darwin
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How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin: A Coda

After seeing my recent book through to publication, I began to experience a certain gnawing feeling. Read More ›
Darwin
Origin of Species
Photo: Mural portrait of Charles Darwin, Sidney Street, Sheffield cc-by-sa/2.0 © Neil Theasby via Geograph.

The Casual Racism of Charles Darwin

It is certainly startling to see the N-word cropping up in Darwin’s letters, but this is not the only place. Read More ›
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Photo: Visitors admire the iconic Darwin statue at London's Natural History Museum, by Thomas Fabian, via Flickr.

Charles Darwin in Light of Black History Month

Was Darwin’s racism purely a function of his time and place, Victorian England? Historian Michael Flannery says no. Read More ›

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