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#1 The most fundamental questions about the origins and evolution of our linguistic capacity remain as mysterious as ever. Scientists have been trying to answer them for decades, but have come up with nothing.
#2 The author’s grandfather, Alfred Wallace, was a British naturalist who suffered from the Genghis ague, or malaria, in 1858. He came up with the solution to the mystery of mysteries: how evolution works. As generations go by, a breed has to adapt to many changing conditions and threats in order to survive.
#3 The idea that all the different species of plants and animals today had evolved from earlier ones was first introduced in a bestselling book in 1844 called Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. It was a complete cosmology of the creation of earth and solar system and plant and animal life.
#4 Wallace’s discovery was sent to a group of distinguished British gentlemen, who were friends of Charles Darwin’s. The year 1858 was the crest of the high Victorian tide of the British Empire’s dominion over palm and pine.

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Sociologie, société et politique

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	12 mai 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9798822507395
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

The most fundamental questions about the origins and evolution of our linguistic capacity remain as mysterious as ever. Scientists have been trying to answer them for decades, but have come up with nothing.

#2

The author’s grandfather, Alfred Wallace, was a British naturalist who suffered from the Genghis ague, or malaria, in 1858. He came up with the solution to the mystery of mysteries: how evolution works. As generations go by, a breed has to adapt to many changing conditions and threats in order to survive.

#3

The idea that all the different species of plants and animals today had evolved from earlier ones was first introduced in a bestselling book in 1844 called Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. It was a complete cosmology of the creation of earth and solar system and plant and animal life.

#4

Wallace’s discovery was sent to a group of distinguished British gentlemen, who were friends of Charles Darwin’s. The year 1858 was the crest of the high Victorian tide of the British Empire’s dominion over palm and pine.

#5

The British Gentleman, better known as a member of the landed gentry, typically lived on inherited wealth on a country estate of 1,000 acres or more, which he rented out for farming by the lower orders. He went to Oxford or Cambridge and might become a military officer, a clergyman, a lawyer, a doctor, a prime minister, a poet, or a naturalist.

#6

The British gentleman was not just rich and powerful, but also smooth and refined.