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Darwin and Victorian Society

December 11th, 2008

Kevin Dixon       The publication of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species in 1859 rapidly made an impact on Victorian society far beyond its intended scientific audience.   Between 1859 and 1870, approximately three quarters of the British scientific community came to accept the concept of evolution and, though mankind is hardly mentioned in [...]

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