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Darwin's 'Black Box'

It is difficult to conceive of the problem that faced Darwin and his contemporaries when we compare the level and nature of his knowledge with that which we possess today.

John Peet

We can join him in postulating how morphological changes could accumulate, gradually transforming one kind of animal into another. What he did not know about was the massive area of science covered by branches such as microbiology and molecular biology. These had not yet been revealed.