Darwin and the Ancient Earth

Darwin and the Ancient Earth: Dinosaurs and the 'Deep Past&' in the 19th-Century Imagination. Why was the young Darwin&';s fascination with geology so important for his later work? And why was prehistory so popular in early nineteenth-century Britain? A podcast with Professor Jim Secord, Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project and Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, to complement the exhibition 'Endless Forms&' at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (16 June - 4 October 2009).