Those guys were all Fabians, a silly secret society of the British upper crust. My father was a Mason. That's how people used to network. Some people join churches. Other's belong to power-broker organizations. We belong to an international "community" that supports financially disruptive technology. We're insurgents.
Darwin's connections are what got him passage on the Beagle and allowed him to observe and compile his information. In fact, he probably would not have been able to publish without membership in the Fabian network. Such is the way of the world.
Those guys were all Fabians, a silly secret society of the British upper crust. My father was a Mason. That's how people used to network. Some people join churches. Other's belong to power-broker organizations. We belong to an international "community" that supports financially disruptive technology. We're insurgents.
Darwin's connections are what got him passage on the Beagle and allowed him to observe and compile his information. In fact, he probably would not have been able to publish without membership in the Fabian network. Such is the way of the world.