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24 Feb 2021 Conversations with Tyler Patricia Fara on Newton, Scientific Progress, and the Benefits of Unhistoric Acts
“Well, if I’m going to extend Northern England to the south a bit, to the Midlands, I would say Lichfield because that’s where Erasmus Darwin lived, who was Charles Darwin’s grandfather.”
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…Which is, to you, the most interesting city in Northern England? Well, if I’m going to extend Northern England to the south a bit, to the Midlands, I would say Lichfield because that’s where Erasmus Darwin lived, who was Charles Darwin’s grandfather. Lichfield is near Birmingham. In the 18th century, Birmingham was quite small and insignificant, and Lichfield was very important. That’s where Darwin developed one of the earliest theories of evolution to be expressed in Britain. Do you think that Charles Darwin noticed his own genetic resemblance to his grandfather Erasmus?…
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