A letter from the United States: The fox in our backyard - Science, Serendipity and Surprise

The story of how Charles Darwin composed The Origin of Species, published in November of 1859, has been told many times during the bicentennial of Darwin s birth and the sesquicentennial of the publication of the book. It is a history well known to biologists and historians of science. The heated de...

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Autor principal:	Lee,Richard V
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2009
Materias:	Adaptation, biological Evolution History, modern Natural history
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