Thursday February 12th is the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Darwin. Strangely it is also the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. The two men in their separate ways led to the release of human shackles that are key elements of formation of our current society. Lincoln in freeing the slaves and giving new breath to the idea of the United States and Darwin in positioning mankind in a continuum as well as demonstrating the essence of competition between and within species. On the one hand the Survival of the Fittest was redefined as society and on the other the survival of the fittest took on a broad set of metaphors.
Thus a Happy Birthday to Darwin as well as
Old Abe, the coincidence is not mere happenstance for it should make one think of the dimensions that both brought to humanity.
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