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slash UK slash AI for people. Hi, this is Steve Murski for Science Talk, the weekly podcast of

Scientific American. November 24th is the 150th anniversary of the publication of certainly one of the most

influential books of all time, Darwin's Origin of Species.

In 1999, Scientific American received an unsolicited manuscript from Ernst Mayer, one of the most important evolutionary biologists and evolutionary theorists of the 20th century.

We published that article. I was privileged to be the editor of that article. And in honor of the Darwin anniversary, we have released that article from behind the Paywall Archive.

It's available free on our website for the next 30 days.

Ernst Mayer, M-A-Y-R.

I had the privilege, as I say, of editing him and then interviewing him on his 100th birthday.

He continued to publish after the age of 100.

He finally passed away at the age of 100 and a half in February of 2005.

The article that we published appeared in the July 2000 issue of Scientific American.

It was called Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought.

As I say, the entire article is available free on our website. I'm not going to read the

whole article, but I'll read the whole introduction and then summarize the article for you.

Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought by Ernst Mayer. Clearly, our conception of the world and our place in it

is at the beginning of the 21st century, drastically different from the zeitgeist at the beginning

of the 19th century. But no consensus exists as to the source of this revolutionary change.

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