Darwinius Mythopoesis

[Glenn]

"Or as Victorian historian Kathryn Hughes recently put it in perceptibly ironic tones, after picking up animal-rearing tips inter alia from his barber (William Willis) and ideas of competition for scarce resources from Malthus, “the happy coincidence of a chatty hairdresser, a roiling populace and a forty-year old economic treatise had given Darwin the key to unlocking his theory of natural selection.”5 Darwin’s journey of questing imagination cum cerebration had now reached a successful conclusion."

https://evolutionnews.org/2022/01/myth-making-and-malthus/

[RonO]

On 1/10/2022 4:53 PM, Glenn wrote:
> "Or as Victorian historian Kathryn Hughes recently put it in perceptibly ironic tones, after picking up animal-rearing tips inter alia from his barber (William Willis) and ideas of competition for scarce resources from Malthus, “the happy coincidence of a chatty hairdresser, a roiling populace and a forty-year old economic treatise had given Darwin the key to unlocking his theory of natural selection.”5 Darwin’s journey of questing imagination cum cerebration had now reached a successful conclusion."
>
> https://evolutionnews.org/2022/01/myth-making-and-malthus/
>

How do people deceive themselves. You might want to read that thread.

Ron Okimoto