According to The World Almanac, February 12, 2009, marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. (Darwin thus shares an exact birth date with Abraham Lincoln.) The 150th anniversary of Darwin's On the Origin of Species will occur on November 24, 2009. Here is a quote from this monumental work:
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
-- Charles Darwin,
On the Origin of Species , 1859
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