Darwin Drafts On Line

[James Brody]

Darwin's Drafts Now On Line
Interesting week: some of the ID folks release their movie tomorrow but today the Telegraph highlights self-evolving (emergent?) software that will demand web pages to evolve and the availability of Darwin's notes, scribbles, and maunderings over the Internet.

JimB

"Charles Darwin's theory of evolution drafts go online
"By Andrew Pierce
"Last Updated: 12:01am BST 17/04/2008

"The first drafts of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, which have never before been seen in public, are being published online for the first time today. (See http://darwin-online.org.uk/) For decades one of the most important collections of primary materials in the history of science was available only to scholars at Cambridge University Library, which had been given the 90,000 papers and images by the Darwin family in 1942... The papers, now published by Darwin Online, include early calculations on his theory of evolution, thousands of drafts of his scientific writings, records of his experiments, and even arguments in favour of a wife, who he described as "better than a dog anyhow".

Lots more at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/mai...-mostviewedbox