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In celebration of Darwin Day 2021 (12 Feb), The Humanist Society invites you to an afternoon with Dr. John van Wyhe, famed Darwin historian
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When he died in 1882, Darwin was the most famous man of science in the world. His theory of evolution had already long since swept the scientific world and become and remained accepted as fact.
Ever since his time he has been continuously written about, studied and commemorated. Over the decades, however, more and more myths and legends gradually became part of his story. Now they have become some of the principal "facts" everyone thinks they know about him.