I am grateful [or maybe not!] to Friendly Bookworm for nominating me for The Seven Deadly Sins of Reading challenge. Now, seven deadly sins I'm familiar with; I've been guilty of all of them in my time - and that goes back quite a long way. But of Reading? I've always thought of reading as …
Tag: The Origin of Species
Species!
On the Natural Selection of Charles Darwin A Review of The Origin of Species Around the middle of the nineteenth century, an Augustinian friar, physicist and mathematician called Gregor Mendel experimented with pea plants and, without realising it, founded a whole new field of scientific endeavour. Mendel's valuable contribution to science became known and recognised …
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