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Dec 2018
4:20pm, 20 Dec 2018
20,614 posts
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Wriggling Snake
Evolution, well natural selection really.
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Dec 2018
4:22pm, 20 Dec 2018
1,064 posts
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SailorSteve
If anyone has any interest in Darwin, I can wholeheartedly recommend “This Thing of Darkness” by Harry Thompson. Incredible but true story of the captain of HMS Beagle, Robert Fitzroy. Fitz only took Darwin along as a companion to try to keep his ‘blue devils’ (depression) at bay. Fitz led an incredible life but only relatively recently found meagre public recognition for his trouble by having a shipping forecast area named after him. Meanwhile Chuck lives large in posterity and chat room polls.
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Dec 2018
4:27pm, 20 Dec 2018
20,398 posts
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Maclennane
to be fair, Darwin made possibly the greatest ever inductive leap of science and imagination, the other fellow mostly pointed a ship and chose a good companion.
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Dec 2018
4:41pm, 20 Dec 2018
37,479 posts
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McGoohan
Robert "The Hedgehog" Fitzroy
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Dec 2018
4:50pm, 20 Dec 2018
39,968 posts
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GlennR
Hedgehogs are a miracle of evolution. All Darwin did was watch.
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Dec 2018
5:39pm, 20 Dec 2018
14,490 posts
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Angus Clydesdale
It’s always the same. SuperDeath starts with maximum interest and even, dare I say, a frisson of excitement. Then the arse gets kicked right out of it being left open for voting for weeks and by the end no-one gives a flying fuck who/what wins.
I’m cancelling my subscription.
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Dec 2018
10:33pm, 20 Dec 2018
20,620 posts
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Wriggling Snake
Thing of darkness sounds good. Must be a fine chap as he also wrote Penquins Stopped play a book about village cricket, which is also good.
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Dec 2018
10:34pm, 20 Dec 2018
20,621 posts
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Wriggling Snake
Also read In Patagonia recently where The Beagle Darwin etc gets a mention....
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Dec 2018
10:40pm, 20 Dec 2018
37,483 posts
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McGoohan
My missus loved This Thing of Darkness - it's one of her fave books. She tried to get me to read it but I wouldn't a) because it's about a foot thick and b) I CBAed to read historical fiction.
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Dec 2018
9:01am, 21 Dec 2018
109,854 posts
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GregP
A clear winner, mercifully.
Charles Darwin (1809–1882), English naturalist and writer, best known as the originator of the theory of biological evolution by natural selection 25 - 23 Western european hedgehog (erinaceus europaeus)
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