Why does Darwin matter? It is because he cut through so much chaff with one of the most simple, beautiful and exquisitely sharp ideas. Evolution is Life's greatest and truest legacy and he was its most brilliant student.
Read Dawkins celebrating Darwin on the occasion of Darwin Day.
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