Matt Ridley

The real origin of Darwin’s theory

Matt Ridley retraces Darwin’s footsteps and says that it was his encounter with ‘savages’ in Tierra del Fuego, not the Galapagos finches, that first convinced him of evolution

issue 26 September 2009
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Matt Ridley is the author of How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom (2020), and co-author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 (2021)

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