February 12th 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of my favourite medical dropout, Charles Darwin.
Darwin Day is a way of celebrating the great man’s contribution to science (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online) and, more generally, the importance of science to humanity.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge; it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science – Charles Darwin
Happy Darwin Day
Be sure to have a celebratory bowl of primordial soup (!) while you watch Richard Dawkins‘ uncut interview with Randolph Nesse on evolutionary medicine (from “The Genius of Charles Darwin”):
For more on how evolution underpins medicine, have a look at Nothing in medicine makes sense….
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