E36 — Dr. John van Wyhe: Charles Darwin, Myths, Reality & the Birth of Evolution
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Today, I’m joined by Dr. John van Wyhe, historian of science at the National University of Singapore and one of the world’s leading experts on Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. We break open the myths, misunderstandings, and surprising truths behind Darwin’s life, the Voyage of the Beagle, the long road to the theory of evolution, and why the Galápagos were not the eureka moment you've always heard about.
John walks us through how scientists in the 1830s actually understood geology, extinction, and the age of the Earth — and why nearly everything we think about that…
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