Today is the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, and there is a whole list of things I am not going to do;

I am not going to set aside time to read On the Origin of Species when I get home.

I am not going to write a long ode to Darwin in which I pontificate on how his view of nature changed science and society.

I am not going to stop by any Darwin-themed parties, lectures, or other events.

And so on. I really do not have any special celebratory plans for today at all. Instead I intend to honor the work of Charles Darwin in a different way.

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