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28 Mar 07
Darwin was committed to publish
The idea that Charles Darwin delayed publishing On the Origin of Species for 20 years for fear of ridicule is a myth, a new assessment claims. BBC News, 28 March 2007.
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A Cambridge historian with access to Darwin's papers says there is simply no evidence to show the naturalist held back his evolution theory.
Dr John van Wyhe says the scientist was just busy with other writings and also sporadically hindered by ill-health.
17 Mar 07
Evolution myths
The Victorian "crisis of faith" predates Darwin's Origin of Species. Tennyson felt confronted by "nature red in tooth and claw" in 1850. Times Literary Supplement, 14 March 2007.
22 Nov 04
Victorians and the Prehistoric by Michael Freeman
Times Online - Sunday Times Review
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After dinosaurs were disinterred, John Martin made primeval history into a genre subject with gripping canvases showing 01CNature, red in tooth and claw01D.
The latter phrase was coined by Tennyson in his poem In Memoriam, one of several in which he reflected on the changing natural world. Other writers joined in the fun: Dickens, having introduced a Megalosaurus into London in Bleak House (1852), imagined in Household Words a mountain range erupting in Regent Street. Freeman makes a plausible case that Charles Kingsley019s Water Babies (1863) was inspired by notions of natural selection. He even claims Lewis Carroll019s Alice 019s Adventures in Wonderland (1862 014 originally titled Alice019s Adventures Under Ground) for the literature on geology. Carroll had often taken his child muse Alice Liddell to the new Natural History Museum in Oxford, where one of her favourite exhibits was the dodo, which duly appeared in his book.
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