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'In January 1836 Charles Darwin lay on a sunny bank of the Cox's River, not far from Bathurst in NSW, and watched with interest as a life and death struggle took place nearby. It was happening in the little burrow of an antlion.'
'It would be nice to regard this moment on the Australian riverbank as Charles Darwin's 'Eureka!' moment, the instant when his theory of the origin of the species flashed upon him, ready formed and complete. In reality Darwin's musings on that Australian riverbank would be just one of the many thousands of thinking sessions that would lead him to the full development of his evolutionary theory.'
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Includes portrait of Charles Darwin by Richmond, painted just after Darwin visited Australia
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Subjects:
- Bathurst, Bathurst area, Bathurst - Orange area, Central West NSW, New South Wales,
- 1836
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