https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/07/14/darwin-and-wallace-1858/ Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:10:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/07/14/darwin-and-wallace-1858/#comment-539835 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:10:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/07/14/darwin-and-wallace-1858/#comment-539835 We’re seeing drastic malthusan reductions in the number of raccoons, starlings, pigeons, and house sparrows since Toronto instituted a Green Bin program for sequestering and municipal composting of food scraps.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/07/14/darwin-and-wallace-1858/#comment-539834 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:47:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/07/14/darwin-and-wallace-1858/#comment-539834 Maybe you could submit to the “Shoulders of Giants” carnival.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/07/14/darwin-and-wallace-1858/#comment-539833 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:53:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/07/14/darwin-and-wallace-1858/#comment-539833 I doubt that they would get high grades. The lack of discussion of genetics would be a real killer. Of course, neither Darwin or Wallace had any understanding of genetics so it isn’t their fault. Other than that, they’d likely get decent scores.

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