Charles Darwin’s nemesis reconsidered

Richard Owen

In his Laelaps blog, science writer Brian Switek explains how much of what you may have heard or read about Richard Owen, famed “anti-evolutionist” and nemesis of Charles Darwin, is in fact wrong.

Switek writes:

If we wish to tell the stories of highly-influential scientists like Darwin and Owen, the least we can do is try to accurately comprehend their words and what they meant by them.