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Slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes to work. Carl August Sandburg		Friday Sep 12, 2025
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About William Bateson

	William Bateson
	(1861-1926) Address of the President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, August 14, 1914 - English biologist & pioneer in study of genetics.

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'[T]hough we must hold to our faith in the evolution of species, there is little evidence as to how it has come about, and no clear proof that the process is continuing in any considerable degree at the present time.'

Empirical confirmation of Darwin's theory did not prove forthcoming in the first few decades following its publication. Indeed, by the early twentieth century, many noted naturalists had come to regard Darwin's account of evolution by natural selection as

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