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Article: BIOGRAPHY ILLUMINATES THE LIFE AND DISCOVERIES OF CHARLES DARWIN.(DAILY BREAK)(Review)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- January 24, 1996
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Byline: ANN EGERTON
ANCIENT THINKERS such as Aristotle and St. Augustine and then Sir Francis Bacon, Linnaeus and others in the 17th and 18th centuries theorized about what was first called in 1826 ``evolution.'' But it was Charles Darwin who produced solid theory and evidence of natural selection, particularly with his reports on the finches of the Galapagos and their task-developed beaks, and who published the revolutionary ``Origin of the Species.'' Darwin's findings paved the way for such breakthrough discoveries as chromosomes, chromatin, the laws of inheritance, mutation and DNA.
In the excellent ``Darwin: A Life in Science'' (Dutton, 298 pp., ...