Dwelling on Darwin (IIPM B&E Article)
A radical insight into the ‘evolution’ of the man himself…
Few are the names that could stake a claim to being as universally illustrious in the history of biological science than Charles Robert Darwin. Fewer conjectures stand taller than the Theory of Evolution, textbook literature no student could deny having pored over in education, that remains to constitute fodder for thought and subject of controversy the world over even today, nearly a century and a half after its manifestation in Darwin’s legendary publication, The Origin of the Species. Cutting a swathe through cumbersome chronicles previously scripted on Darwin, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin is David Quammen’s succinct narrative of the self-educated scientist’s life and times, and events from the instant he trudged down the HMS Beagle, to his last breath in 1882. The upshot of his famed voyage to South America, the Pacific Islands and Australia was the ultimate anthology of species coupled with unparalleled insight into their variance by region, quite truly termed the classic building blocks for the building block that is life itself. And although the culmination of his epic journey infused within him the definitive conviction that it was indeed the process of transmutation (the nomenclature accorded to evolution during the period), which resulted in one species ‘transforming’ into another, Darwin let his beliefs lie dormant on the shelf for more than a decade for fear of being regarded as sacrilegious and shameful science, as the order prevailed back then.
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Editor: Arindam Chaudhuri
Source: IIPM Publication
Few are the names that could stake a claim to being as universally illustrious in the history of biological science than Charles Robert Darwin. Fewer conjectures stand taller than the Theory of Evolution, textbook literature no student could deny having pored over in education, that remains to constitute fodder for thought and subject of controversy the world over even today, nearly a century and a half after its manifestation in Darwin’s legendary publication, The Origin of the Species. Cutting a swathe through cumbersome chronicles previously scripted on Darwin, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin is David Quammen’s succinct narrative of the self-educated scientist’s life and times, and events from the instant he trudged down the HMS Beagle, to his last breath in 1882. The upshot of his famed voyage to South America, the Pacific Islands and Australia was the ultimate anthology of species coupled with unparalleled insight into their variance by region, quite truly termed the classic building blocks for the building block that is life itself. And although the culmination of his epic journey infused within him the definitive conviction that it was indeed the process of transmutation (the nomenclature accorded to evolution during the period), which resulted in one species ‘transforming’ into another, Darwin let his beliefs lie dormant on the shelf for more than a decade for fear of being regarded as sacrilegious and shameful science, as the order prevailed back then.
For complete IIPM Research & Publication Article, please click here...
Editor: Arindam Chaudhuri
Source: IIPM Publication
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