Darwin in Cape Horn: Where Evolution Was Born
Darwin in Cape Horn: Where Evolution Was Born
a two-part reading @ Forbes Library, Watson Room
Mondays June 27 & July 25 7-8:30
Darwin in Cape Horn
Darwin didn’t discover evolution in the Galapagos.
He inherited the idea from his grandfather Erasmus, the famous poet—
an idea he avoided and repressed until he met the Yaghan people of Cape Horn.
In The Descent of Man, he wrote:
That man is descended from some lowly-organised form,
will … be highly distasteful to many persons.
But there can hardly be a doubt that we are descended from barbarians.
The astonishment which I felt on first seeing a party of Fuegians
on a wild and broken shore
will never be forgotten by me,
for the reflection at once rushed into my mind—such were our ancestors.
Voyage into the mind of Charles Darwin, into Cape Horn & its people, and spend some quality time contemplating your own primal origins…
it’s free, and you’re welcome.
Forbes Library Watson Room Mondays June 27 & July 25 7-8:30
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