Darwin's Greatest Discovery

The complex designs of living things need not imply a designer

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Francisco J. Ayala is University Professor and Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of California–Irvine. He is the author of Darwin’s Gift to Science and Religion and Am I a Monkey?

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