Happy Birthday, Evolution!

Thanks to mirandaceleste for the link.
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2009/11/24/segments/144916

Richard Dawkins, biologist, "professor of the Public Understanding of Science" at Oxford University author of many books on science, most recently, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, talks about Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, which was published on 24 November 1859.

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