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class=334195022-16032009>All of Darwin's book is excellent, but the last chapter
soars with eagles. If you only have ten minutes, do consider
using those ten minutes to read this stunning last chapter of Origin
of the Species:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=334195022-16032009>What amazes and impresses me about Darwin's
book is how this man really observed beasts, carefully and diligently
observed them. In his day he had no underlying unifying theory, so
everything was observational.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=334195022-16032009>So impressive is the way Darwin puzzled and puzzled
over ants in chapter 7:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Notable is this, not just because I am a huge fan of
ants but because Darwin was so convincing as he drives home the notion that
nature is comprehensible, that her mysteries really can be understood thru
diligent observation and rigorous application of logic.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>The whole thing is here:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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class=334195022-16032009>Isn't it amazing how well this work has aged?
After 150 years, it still has so much to say to us, and so much of it is right
on the money. What other scientific work is like that? Newton's
Principia. Einstein's special relativity.
Others?</SPAN></FONT></DIV></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Check this, Is this the coolest thing you ever saw or
what?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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href="http://www.youtube.com/user/SeaWorldFL">http://www.youtube.com/user/SeaWorldFL</A></FONT></DIV>
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class=334195022-16032009>What I want to know is if they only recently started
doing this. The video makes it sound that way. Do they do it only at
SeaWorld? Did the dolphins really develop a technology, a toy, right in
front of us?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=334195022-16032009>spike</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>