'Darwin cleared: official' This 1982 Times (7 January) head- line of a first leader, reporting the astonishing case brought in Arkansas against compulsory teaching of a biblical account of creation, hopefully set at rest doubts about Darwin in the minds of a public confused by media presentations of such unfamiliar concepts as punctuated equilibria, cladism and phenetics. Mud sticks, but Darwin's perturbed ghost may have found some consolation in the concurrent celebrations at Grange-over-Sands, a modest township in Cumbria, UK, of the centenary of the publication of his less controversial...
'Darwin cleared: official' This 1982 Times (7 January) head- line of a first leader, reporting the astonishing case brought in Arkansas against compul...