life and letters
Rewriting Nature
Adam Gopnik on why the evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin spent so long preparing to write his masterpiece, “On the Origin of Species.”
October 23, 2006
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life and letters
Adam Gopnik on why the evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin spent so long preparing to write his masterpiece, “On the Origin of Species.”