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    Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought
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    Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought

    Great minds shape the thinking of successive historical periods. Luther and Calvin inspired the Reformation; Locke, Leibniz, Voltaire and Rousseau, the Enlightenment. Modern thought is most dependent on the influence of Charles Darwin

    November 24, 2009 — Ernst Mayr

    Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought

    Great minds shape the thinking of successive historical periods. Luther and Calvin inspired the Reformation; Locke, Leibniz, Voltaire and Rousseau, the Enlightenment. Modern thought is most dependent on the influence of Charles Darwin

    July 1, 2000 — Ernst Mayr

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    Concerning a new biography of Charles Darwin, and its scientific shortcomings

    November 1, 1959 — Ernst Mayr

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