Today 161 years ago, Charles Darwin sent the first three chapters of his controversial new book to his publisher, and changed the internet forever.
The official myth insists that Darwin waited for 20 years to publish On The Origin Of Species because he feared a backlash from a world that wasn’t ready for his theory of evolution...
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