Sublime

But in the very next paragraph, Darwin raised the free rider problem, which is still the main objection raised against group selection: But it may be asked, how within the limits of the same tribe did a large number of members first become endowed with these social and moral qualities, and how was the standard of excellence raised? It is extremely

Darwin provided a proto-description of ecology, describing an ‘entangled bank’, wherein plants of many kinds, birds, insects and other ‘elaborately constructed forms, so different from one another’ were produced by the complex forces of evolution, yet depended utterly on one another.

One of the British men that Amundsen beat was Sir John Franklin, another polar hero, who died in his Northwest Passage attempt. Franklin, with his large, technologically advanced vessels HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, had packed what he believed to be his guarantor to the expedition’s success: canned food. It was a revolutionary packaging of fresh grub