ext_20863 ([identity profile] colinbj.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] kortirion_among_the_trees 2016-09-29 06:20 am (UTC)

I only just realised that 'Darwin Among The Machines' (1863) came only four years after 'The Origin Of Species' (1859)!

Although of course Patrick Matthew had really published 'Darwin's' theory decades earlier, in 1831. In the appendix to a best-selling book. And getting right a key thing Darwin got wrong.

Allocation of intellectual credit is such a curious business.

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