*The crater held a circle of stars above them as if they were closed up in a snow globe, a private cosmos. He thought of Darwin sleeping out on the pampas during his Beagle trip, a middle-class white kid traveling the world, the first of the backpackers. It was only afterwards, really, that he had m
Metaphysics and the origin of species
โ Scribed by Tattersall, Ian
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 28 KB
- Volume
- 106
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-9483
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