#+title: Darwin's ideas are a product of his time
- tags :: [[file:20200720100600-darwin.org][Darwin]] [[file:20200721210255-science.org][science]] [[file:20200720100618-theory_of_evolution.org][theory of evolution]]

Darwin read the scientists of his time. In his time there were groundbreaking
discoveries in geology, biology, and a rising materialist conception of science
and philosophy. When Darwin made the connection about evolution in his travels,
it was only a logical conclusion.