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Darwin's geological time dilemma

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The Editorial 'Darwin's Geology' and the Commentary 'Man, myth, geologist' in Nature Geoscience1,2 discuss Charles Darwin's achievements as a geologist. It is also worth pointing out that Darwin's theory of descent with modification called for an age of the Earth far greater than thought at the time.

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