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The human error Darwin inspired

12 mins | Oct 11, 2020
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How the demotion of Homo Sapiens led to environmental destruction. "If the idea that Darwin humbled us has become canonical, what is less often observed is the fact that the newfound humility was, in certain important respects, misleading — and dangerously so." In Nautilus, Aaron Hirsh explores how Thomas Henry Huxley took the humblings of Darwin’s work too far and permanently transformed a marine ecosystem.

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