Celebrating Darwin
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Meeting of the Minds
On July 1, 1858, a joint paper by Wallace and Darwin was read to a meeting of the Linnean Society of London at Burlington House, above. It was the first time their theories had been aired in public, but few of the attendees realized the momentousness of the occasion.
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