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Darwin’s legacy

01 Jul 2009

Born 200 years ago, Charles Darwin is rightly celebrated for his work explaining the origin of species. But in setting a new standard for what an explanation of nature should be like, he also had a huge impact on physics and cosmology, as Leonard Susskind explains

Darwin's legacy
Charles Darwin was no theoretical physicist, and I am no biologist. Yet, as a theoretical physicist,

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