The Importance of Skepticism
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth -- Albert Einstein
Much of what most of us know about the survival of the fittest and evolutionary biology is linked to Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of a Species. However the term “missing link,” first used in 1844 in Robert Chambers’ Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, predates Darwin’s more famous work by 15 years. For much of the 19th and 20th Century evol…
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