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The Twenty-Year Gap

Mar 28, 2007

A science correspondent for the Guardian looks into new analytical work arguing that Charles Darwin didn't delay the publication of On the Origin of Species, as is commonly thought, to avoid trouble with the church or his peers. His problem, according to the new analysis, is one we can all relate to: he simply had too much work to do. Let's hope it doesn’t take the rest of us 20 years to catch up.

 

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