"At last gleams of light have come, & and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable" Charles Darwin, letter to J.D. Hooker, 11 January 1844
Species change through time. Oh the madness. Seems so mundane yet it was not the thinking at the time. In fact, it was controversial because most people thinking of the "species problem" believed that species were supernaturally created as fixed entities.
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