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Results of our “What Darwin didn’t say” competition

AND the winner of our competition in honour of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth is…

WE INVITED readers to tell us “Things you would never have heard Charles Darwin say about evolution.” The response was magnificent – nearly 900 of you sent in entries – and we found the quality so high that no less than 50 made it onto our first shortlist of potential winners.

As we read through all these witty entries, a rather unflattering picture of Darwin began to emerge. Compared with the rigorous rationalist of reality, the Darwin…

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