…Alfred Russel Wallace, who was, for my money, a better scientist and for damn sure a better field Mandev than Charles Darwin, but Wallace, who really invented evolution. And interestingly enough, based on last night's discussion, he invented it during a…

…he couldn't figure out what to do with it, so he wrote a letter to the great scientist of the age, which was Charles Darwin in London. And when Darwin opened this letter, you know, just said, holy shit, this guy has scooped me 20 years I've been…

…or a kind of visionary exfoliation. And I always say so so that people won't think you know you're not listening to Charles Darwin when you're listening to me it doesn't quite work that way. The mushroom is an astonishing organism. What does it mean that…

…were using everything necessary, sign language and so on. Well of course Alfred Russel Wallace, who was together with Charles Darwin developed natural selection, believed that the entire evolutionary process was being given nudges by angels. He thought of…

…I like most and I think my most heroic example in the kind of thing I do is none other than the great late Charles Darwin, and like most other biologists I greatly admire him. But what I see in him and admire is different from what others admire. I…

…do what you like. And science in the past grew out of a fertile field of amateur research. Even as eminent a scientist as Charles Darwin never had a government grant or an academic post. He lived as a private man a gentleman in his own house and did…

…and animals can home it's very widespread. It's just that pigeons are the best known example. Now how do they do it? Well Charles Darwin was one of the first to put forward a theory he said: well maybe they do it by remembering all the twists and…

…do what you like. And science in the past grew out of a fertile field of amateur research. Even as eminent a scientist as Charles Darwin never had a government grant or an academic post. He lived as a private man a gentleman in his own house and did…

…and animals can home. It's very widespread. It's just that pigeons are the best known example. Now how do they do it? Well Charles Darwin was one of the first to put forward a theory he said: well maybe they do it by remembering all the twists and…

…he would write a letter to the greatest naturalist, natural scientist of the age who was the aristocratic and well connected Charles Darwin back in England by this time Wallace had been six years knocking around in the forests of Indonesia. So he sends…

…get drunk at the intermission. So we'll just schedule him after the intermission. And this was done and this is why Charles Darwin is the discoverer of evolution. For a few decades it was called the Darwin Wallace Theory, but eventually it's an interesting…

…so he fired off a letter to the only person he could think of to ask who was the greatest biologist of the day Charles Darwin at home in England in his Garden, working over 20 years of notes on the problem of the species. When Darwin got this letter…