Survival of the Kindest
Two hundred years ago on February 12, Adam Gopnik writes in Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life, two pebbles -- Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln -- were dropped into the sea of life. Their ideas and forms of eloquence have redirected the currents of humanity.
One current of Darwin's thought is well-known. His theory of evolution by natural selection would require new genesis stories about the origins of life ...
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