Down house "lacking significance for science"

From Matt Brown’s blog comes the story of Unesco not awarding Down house (Darwin’s home) World Heritage Site status because its lack of “significance as a site for the heritage of science”.

Read the post No promotion for Darwin house and weep. Darwin, forgive us for our stupendous foolishness.

About Mario Pineda-Krch

I am a quantitative evolutionary ecologist. My research focuses on fundamental questions at the interface of ecology and evolution using a combination of theoretical, statistical and computational approaches.
This entry was posted in Charles Darwin, Down house, evolution, Origin of Species. Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

Please log in to WordPress.com to post a comment to your blog.

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s