{"id":56,"date":"2007-03-29T08:17:14","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T13:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/archives\/56"},"modified":"2007-03-29T08:17:51","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T13:17:51","slug":"darwins-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Darwin&#8217;s Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most discussed events in the history of biology is the delay between Darwin&#8217;s original conception of the theory of natural selection and the publishing of &#8220;Origin&#8221;.  We all know the story.  For more than 20 years Darwin kept his ideas mostly to himself and a close circle of colleagues who kept encouraging him to publish.  Darwin&#8217;s delay has been attributed to his reticence to confront the religious and scientific establishment.  Darwin keeps working but eventually he receives a letter from Wallace with essentially the same concepts outlined.  Darwin&#8217;s colleagues arrange for a mutual presentation and the rest is history.  Or is it?  Here is a blog entry from <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/evolvingthoughts\/2007\/03\/the_myth_of_darwins_delay.php\"><strong>John Wilken&#8217;s Evolving Thoughts<\/strong> <\/a>that discusses this situation and a reference to a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/6500887.stm\"><strong>paper<\/strong> <\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk\/(hkrcpc55ualftfi4o43gjc45)\/app\/home\/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&#038;backto=issue,5,9;journal,1,30;linkingpublicationresults,1:110825,1\">[pdf]<\/a><\/strong> presented recently by Darwin scholar, John van Wyhe that suggests that Darwin&#8217;s delay was only the result of underestimating the time it would take to complete a scheduled and well thought out research plan.  Check it out.  It will give you something to think about next time you discuss the history of evolutionary thought in your class.<\/p>\n<p>BW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most discussed events in the history of biology is the delay between Darwin&#8217;s original conception of the theory of natural selection and the publishing of &#8220;Origin&#8221;. We all know the story. For more than 20 years Darwin kept his ideas mostly to himself and a close circle of colleagues who kept encouraging<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=56\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kabt-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}