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| Robert Karl Stonjek |
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Darwin's take on Gray's anatomy
24 March 2007
From New Scientist Print Edition. Subscribe and get 4 free issue
"My Dear Darwin,
You have such a way of putting things, and write in such a captivating way.
Almost thou persuadest me to have been 'a hairy quadruped, of arboreal
habits, furnished with a tail and pointed ears'..."
So wrote Asa Gray in 1871. Gray was the most important US botanist of the
19th century, Darwin's champion in America, and a devout Christian. His
letter is one of hundreds of previously unpublished letters that will soon
be available to the public for the first time as part of the Darwin
Correspondence Project (www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Departments/Darwin) run by the
University of Cambridge. The Darwin and Religion site will host the complete
texts of letters relevant to the debate between science and religion. Gray
wrote the letter quoted above after receiving a copy of Darwin's The Descent
of Man. Darwin had written, "If I hear from you, I shall probably receive a
few stabs from your polished stiletto of a pen."
The letters reveal a wide ranging "frank and respectful" debate between many
participants, says Paul White of the Darwin Correspondence Project. "In
contrast to much of the current debate, Darwin and his circle of
correspondents seem more tolerant and more humble."
RE: Design, a play based on the correspondence between Darwin and Gray,
opens in Cambridge, UK, on Sunday.
From issue 2596 of New Scientist magazine, 24 March 2007, page 6
Source: NewScientist
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19325963.900?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=mg19325963.900
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 7:16 pm |
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Asa Gray was a botanist, not the anatomist Henry Gray, who was the
author of Gray's Anatomy. |
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