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“I often said before starting, that I had no doubt I should frequently repent of the whole undertaking.” So wrote Charles Darwin aboard The Beagle , bound for the Galapagos Islands and what would arguably become the greatest and most controversial discovery in scientific history. But the... read more
First Sentence
Georges Cuvier had a large head-a famously large head-and an ego more than sufficient to swell even it.
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- Edward J. Larson (Author)
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