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Charles Darwin became the founder and mythic hero of modern evolutionary biology with the publication of his work On the Origin of Species 150 years ago. The book bears the signature of a geological thinker who had turned to a faster-moving discipline.

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Figure 1: Darwin as an ape.
Figure 2: Darwin's fast geology.

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  1. Mott T. Greene is the John Magee Professor of Science and Values at the Honors Program, CMB 1061, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington 98416-1061, USA. greene@pugetsound.edu,

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Greene, M. Man, myth, geologist. Nature Geosci 2, 666–667 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo646

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