Ten Myths about Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin is one of the most revered (and at times reviled) figures in Western history. A great many 'facts" about him and his ideas are the stuff of textbook myths, others are inaccuracies spread by antievolutionists, and still others are conventional historical mistakes long corrected but still repeated. I present 10 such misconceptions, and some quick and necessarily incomplete rebuttals. New scholarship is rapidly clearing away some of these myths.