Richard Collins
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767 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 14 Sep
Richard Collins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Darwin, afterwards, when 1859, The Origin of Species is published, he wrote to Darwin and pointed out that he'd already got the theory 30 years earlier.
So what you're saying is the appendix does have some use.
Oh, absolutely.
And remember, Darwin then agreed and wrote back and said, yes, having read the thing, he didn't know of its existence, nor did Wallace.
And he said, yes, yes.
He agreed with, and in their reprints or the final versions of The Origin of Species towards the end, he includes a note to the effect that Patrick Matthew had anticipated the theory 30 years previously.
Now, that's my memory.
It might be false, but that's the way it is.
Is that it, Terry?
You don't add to that?
Correct.
A birth is dying of poisoning or something like that.
It'll slink away.
It won't die.
It won't expire in the middle of a lawn or anything like that.
It will go away, hide and hope to recover or something like that.
The window theory seems to me the overwhelmingly probable one.
So there you go, Bernie.
Emma, I hope we can still be friends because I'm a bit of a sneaking regarder when it comes to grey squirrels.
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