Why is Charles Darwin revered when he's a thieving nipple?

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Darwin had been working on his theory for years when he got a letter from Alfred Russell Wallace on the same theme. Darwin went into print jointly with Wallace - which was an act of unusual generosity - to outline the theory of evolution the year before Darwin's On the Origin of Species was published (Wallace was one of its most vocal supporters).

Only a contrarian would try to make out that Darwin didn't deserve credit for something he'd worked on independently for so long.
 
PhilSAFC said:
Good lad is dm, despite his affinity for Boston steamers.
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:lol: my days of being tarmacked are behind me.

JKs canoe said:
Its a shame that Darwin gets all the glory mind
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Scandalous tbh marra.

Monty Pigeon said:
Darwin had been working on his theory for years when he got a letter from Alfred Russell Wallace on the same theme. Darwin went into print jointly with Wallace - which was an act of unusual generosity - to outline the theory of evolution the year before Darwin's On the Origin of Species was published (Wallace was one of its most vocal supporters).

Only a contrarian would try to make out that Darwin didn't deserve credit for something he'd worked on independently for so long.
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"Darwins" theory of Evolution.
 
Wallace should get more credit (an assist for Darwin's goal?) but it's not really Darwin's fault that he doesn't. They weren't competitors and, more importantly, Wallace appears to have had a centre parting in his beard.
 
Possibly one of the best ever SMB thread titles of all time ?
It's up there with 'mother Theresa was a little shit house' and 'a stray dog just shit in my house'
 
A bit like Stephenson and Davy? Except Davy was an enormous bellend and Geordie was the better engineer.
 
Monty Pigeon said:
Darwin had been working on his theory for years when he got a letter from Alfred Russell Wallace on the same theme. Darwin went into print jointly with Wallace - which was an act of unusual generosity - to outline the theory of evolution the year before Darwin's On the Origin of Species was published (Wallace was one of its most vocal supporters).

Only a contrarian would try to make out that Darwin didn't deserve credit for something he'd worked on independently for so long.
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Yep. Also, let's not forget that Darwin spent most of the second half of his life running experiments to back up his work to provide evidence. His work on earthworms and seedlings will probably be scoffed at as being boring but they were incredibly important contributions to science.

There are lots of examples throughout science history where some lucky scientist gets the credit for an invention or discovery when the real donkey work, and often the earlier invention/discovery, was done by another lesser known scientist. The discovery of oxygen, the electric light bulb and the structure of DNA being examples.
 
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