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I almost forgot, but I didn't!
Happy Darwin Day! Don't Forget It
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Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin share a birth date of February 12, 1809. A recent exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London celebrated Darwin's 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of "On the Origin of Species." An amusing anecdote from the exhibition highlighted how Darwin's children, familiar with their father's work, innocently inquired about a friend's father's activities regarding brachiopods, reflecting their belief that such scientific pursuits were common among all fathers. Notably, Darwin ceased having children around the time he began developing his theory of natural selection, suggesting a humorous irony in the concept of survival and reproduction.
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Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were both born on February 12, 1809.
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I went to an exhibition about Darwin at the Natural History Museum in London, celebrating his 200th birthday and the On the Origin of Species' 150th. Apparently one of his children, visiting a friend's house, asked where the friend's father "did his brachiopods". Darwin collected and dissected brachiopods - apparently his children thought this was what all fathers did...
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Interesting fact: Charles Darwin stopped making children exactly when he started to work on the natural selection theory (although he loved children pretty much) - so that selection is hardly fit for survival
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