The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) has announced that it is offering open access to two peer-reviewed articles about Charles Darwin and his historic insights into evolution to celebrate the 150th anniversary this month of the publication of On the Origin of Species. The two articles are by Kevin Padian of the University of California, Berkeley, and James T. Costa of Western Carolina University.
Padian's article, ‘Ten Myths About Charles Darwin,’ appeared in the October issue of the AIBS journal BioScience and can be read at http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/full/10.1525/bio.2009.59.9.10. The article explores some common inaccuracies and untruths about Darwin and his life's work, painting in the process a clear portrait of the man and his struggles to develop a theory to explain the diversity of nature.
Costa's article, ‘The Darwinian Revelation: Tracing the Origin and Evolution of an Idea’ is published in the November issue of BioScience and can be read at http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/full/10.1525/bio.2009.59.10.10. In this article, Costa draws on Darwin's letters and notebooks and other sources to trace the origins of Darwin's key insights, which came to him over many years.
In a similar move, STM publisher Springer has also announced a special issue of the journal Naturwissenschaften to commemorate Darwin’s On the Origin of Species which was published 150 years ago in November 1859. All articles in this special issue will be available for free until December 30, 2009 on Springer’s online information platform http://www.springerlink.com/.
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