TIME FOR A NEW ORIGIN OF SPECIES

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: February 6, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

The mid-19th century was fossil time in science.

Finding fossils was all the rage, by professional scientists and amateur naturalists. Within a few decades, tens of thousands of fossil animals and plants had been named and classified. Some were similar to living organisms. Others were strikingly different.

Of course, fossils had been a source of speculation since antiquity. But the Industrial Revolution and European expansion around the globe opened up rocks for examination as never before - mines, roads, railroads, canals. The rocks were replete with fossils. Thomas Huxley's biographer, ...

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