Mind the gap: did Darwin avoid publishin
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van Wyhe, J.
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Article
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2007
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The Royal Society
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English
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It is widely believed that Charles Darwin avoided publishing his theory of evolution for many years. Many explanations have been proposed to identify Darwin's reasons or motives for doing so. This essay demonstrates that Darwin's delay is a recent historiographical theme for which there is no clear