John Edmonstone: The Man Who Trained Darwin
Ridiculous History
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4.2 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Born into slavery in the 1700s, John Edmonstone gained his freedom in 1817 and moved to Edinburgh, where he stuffed birds for the Natural Museum and taught taxidermy to a young Charles Darwin. Tune in to learn more about the life and times of the man who not only taught Charles Darwin, but inspired him to explore the planet and, eventually, produce groundbreaking science that would forever change the way we think of the natural world.
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| 1:48.3 | Well, well, well. Darwin is entering the car. Hardly knew him. Yeah. It's entering the |
| 2:12.7 | conversation again though. We have talked about Darwin in the past because there's a lot of stuff |
| 2:19.2 | that people don't know. We think of origin of the species and we just we stop there in school. |
| 2:24.4 | What is this? Why are we talking about Darwin? This is ridiculous history. Thank you for coming through. |
| 2:30.4 | I am not Darwin. You're not Darwin. My name is Ben. My name is Nolan. I immediately regret my joke |
| 2:35.1 | because I'm a little I'm on like West East Coast Brain still. We're still in the West Coast. |
| 2:39.9 | And we've been staying up quite late even by West Coast standards. So it's been mega, mega late |
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