Ep 10: Tangling the Tree of Life
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The Hang Up With Charles Darwin
In 2009, when Darwin's 200th birthday was being celebrated, Woz sent an email to some friends saying, on when was it? February 12th, 1809, Darwin was born. He embraced this idea that Darwin was an intellectual thief. That combined with his own envy of Darwin and who knows what else made him very negative toward Darwin at the end of his life. It shows a very complicated interaction of two men hitting on the same idea at one point and then one of them writing a great book about it. They're now doing some thinking and work with a fellow named Albert Branskin,. who I met for the first time and whose work is on the origins of life.
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