This year I have decided, come hell or high water, to read Origin of Species. How long this will take is a big question. Seeing as this year is the 200th anniversary of his birth, I owe it to the man - and myself - to do this. After reading almost all of Stephen Jay Gould's books, with the exception of his last, which was a very technical book about evolution, I think I owe it to him, too.
It seems almost beyond bizarre to think that people in this country are still questioning Darwin's work and the relevance of the theory of natural selection. To me, Darwin possessed one of the greatest minds that ever addressed a question. Even though he did not understand genetics, he instinctively knew that there was a mechanism for transmitting traits from one individual to another. Time has simply proved this to be true.
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