Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
- Charles R. Darwin, the closing paragraph of the Origin Of Species, 1st edition, 1859.
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That's a nice birthday card, you might be interested in reading the strange story of Darwin's crabs:
http://www.ox.ac.uk/scienceblog
[I've posted this at a couple of other Scienceblogs, but I figure it's timely ... and you'd want to know.]
Just heard this on the evening news: Today, for the first time in its 130+ year history, the Westminster Kennel Club named a beagle as Best in Show.
On Darwin Day. How absolutely fitting!
See NYT story at
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/sports/othersports/12westminster.html…
Just a note of thanks from all here to Bora and Clockers for all your support: much appreciated.
We got Darwin Day and the Beagle Project on national radio (links at the blog).