Most travelers following in Darwin’s footsteps go to the Galápagos. But it was here, on a rocky island off the coast of West Africa, that the young naturalist was said to have found his calling.
Tag: Darwin, Charles Robert
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Will ‘Future You’ Thank ‘Today You’ for Getting Married?
Marriage has clear benefits, but whether they’re worthwhile is hard to know before taking the leap.
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The Pernicious Myth of Maternal Instinct
The idea that women arrive at motherhood prepared for the job has done damage for centuries. Can new science help us to let it go?
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How to Make a Decision When There’s No ‘Right’ One
Life’s biggest problems are hard to tame with rationality.
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Stolen Darwin Notebooks, Missing for Decades, Are Returned
The two notebooks were anonymously returned to the Cambridge University Library 22 years after they went missing. A note addressed to the librarian read: “Happy Easter.”