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I've been waiting for this for a while. The Darwin Online project is now live and ready for customers - your one-stop-shop for scans and transcriptions of not only Darwin's published works (and reviews thereof) but also his notebooks, lesser known papers, and other materials. Props to the good folks at Cambridge University, especially John van Whye, for making this valuable resource available to the history of science community.
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You bugger. I had to go give a talk, and when I come back, ready to blog this, you beat me to it! Arggh! You've got plenty to blog on. Leave some crumbs for me...
Survival of the fittest? :)
Of the fastest, for sure...
"Survival of the fittest? :)" That's not Darwin, that's Spencer....
So do they sell the Darwin bobblehead dolls?