I recently started watching a Netflix documentary series on genetic engineering, Unnatural Selection.
I’m not going to comment on the series, just on an alleged quotation which appeared prominently on screen at the beginning of Episode 1:
Many quotations have been wrongly attributed to Darwin, and I found this one implausible. I have read quite a lot by or about Darwin, but I didn’t recall this remark. Nor can I imagine any context in which he would have made it. It is well known that Darwin did keep his theory of evolution by natural selection to himself for about 20 years ... Read even more
