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Jonathan Sachs

Jonathan Sachs is Professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal

Darwin's Slow Time

By Jonathan Sachs

We can begin to grasp just how long a timescale Darwin’s theory requires when we consider the only illustration that he offers in the Origin of Species, which shows species differentiation over time.

<strong>FIGURE 2: </strong>from William Playfair, The Commercial and Political Atlas and Statistical Breviary (London, 1786).
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