In 1859, 24 Rabbits ‘Colonized’ A New Continent—A Biologist Tells The Story
Introduced for the sake of sport, the entry of these rabbits to Australia marked the beginning of an infestation that would ...
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Inside The Pig War Of 1859, When A Dead Pig Almost Triggered A Battle Between America And Great Britain
On June 15, 1859, an American settler named Lyman Cutlar noticed a pig rooting around in his potato patch on one of the San Juan Islands. The pig had "been at several times a great annoyance," and the ...
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An 1859 fight over how to make matzah has lessons about the threat of AI today
(JTA) — In the last few months the world has been dazzled by an astonishing ... until it exploded in 1859 with the publication of “An Alert for Israel,” a collection of letters from ...
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Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection
In 1859 Darwin published On the Origin of Species ... animals and fossils during a five-year voyage around the world in the 19th century. Darwin visited four continents on the ship HMS Beagle.