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How Darwin's Mysterious Illness Gave Us "Origins" and a Recluse Reinvented the Tree of Life


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In episode 1 of Science Sagas, host Ian Graber-Stiehl chats with science writer and biographer David Quammen about how the mysterious illness and poor constitution of Charles Darwin, "the vomitiest scientist in history" helped bring us "On the Origins of Species" -- as well as how a brilliant, but abrasive recluse of a microbiologist ultimately reinvented the rudimentary tree of life that Darwin first sketched in a corner of his notebook.

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