The life of Charles Darwin deconstructs the transition from a medical school dropout to a high-stakes study of Natural Selection and the architecture of Evolutionary Biology. This episode of pplpod analyzes the 5-year-unit-scale voyage of the HMS Beagle, exploring the mechanics of Deep Time alongside the 1859-unit-aged publication of On the Origin of Species. We begin our investigation by stripping away the "classroom poster" facade to reveal a 1809-unit-aged pioneer whose worldview was forged in 40-unit-scale daily sessions with John Edmonston, a formerly enslaved taxidermist, leading to a 100-percent-unit-scale rejection of the racial hierarchies of Victorian England. This deep dive focuses on the "Wedge" methodology,  ...