> To me Darwin the more impressive in this regard because his idea wasn't just seriously batty (no one had seen evolution at work when he proposed it, despite l

> To me Darwin the more impressive in this regard because his idea wasn't just seriously batty (no one had seen evolution at work when he proposed it, despite living in it's midst) I think the idea of evolution was in the air. Lamarck and Wallace wrote about similar things. I don’t know if Darwin knew about them.