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  PREFACE - DESILVA Pequeno impacto do fóssil de neandertal examinado por Darwin em 1864. Darwin estava doente e o fossil ainda não havia sido limpo. Pode ser falta de exp também. xiv-xvi Sometimes the humanity of science leads to great insights. But sometimes it leads to a scientist holding the evidence for a human past literally in his hands without recognizing it. That is why science cannot be done in isolation, by a single individual. It is a collective enterprise that unfolds over generations as we test and retest old ideas and develop new ones to make sense of our world. It stagnates when it is done by homogeneous scientists with similar backgrounds and experiences. It outright fails when it is practiced by inflexible individuals clinging desperately to tired ideas. Darwin knew this. “I had,” he wrote, “during many years, followed a golden rule, namely that whenever published fact, a new observation of thought came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a...

D. FREEMAN 1977 First use of evolution 129 Diferenças nos issues hefirst ‘issue can be recognized by the errata onthe verso ofthetitle leaf of VolumeI, seventeen errata for Volume I and eight for VolumeI. The verso ofthe title leaf ofVolumeII ofthesecondissue has a list of nine other works by Darwin and noerrata, The verso of thehalftitle leaf of VolumeII of thefirst issue bears the printer’s note, butit is blank in the second. Thefirst issue has a note on a tipped in leaf (pp.[ix-x}) in Volume I which refers to ‘a serious and unfortunate error’ which affects pages 297-299 in VolumeI, and pages 161 and 237 in VolumeIl. In the secondissue this leaf is absent and the relevant pages have been entirely reset. The easiest way to distinguish the twoissues ofVolume I aloneis to lookatthe first word on page 297. It is ‘transmitted’ in the first issue and ‘When’ in the second, .... The first issue, of2,500 copies, was published on February 24, and the second, of 2,000 copies, in March. Both...