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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (17425)5/9/2004 10:01:58 AM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) of 28931
 
Charles Darwin,
The formation of vegetable mould : through the action of worms, with observations on their habits.
London: John Murray, 1881.

Darwin's last book was a reworking of one of his earliest publications, a report to the Geological Society in 1838 following up a hint from a Wedgewood uncle about the way the layer of lime placed on farmland appears in later years as a distinct stratum inches below the soil surface. Often dismissed as a minor Darwin book, it was surprisingly popular with general readers. The chapter displayed here shows a sly sense of humour, in describing how the humble earthworm will over time appear to bury the ruins of Romano-British basicicas, the natural processes of the animal world conquering delapidated traditional religious structures.

Darwin's last book also showed how quickly life can change it's environment and the speed of evolution. The first work on punctuated equilibrium can be traced to this work.
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