ABSTRACT
Charles Darwin and the age-old search for cultural universals Stop a random selection of passers-by anywhere on earth and a fair proportion of them will be able to tell you what John Lennon did for a living, that Mahatma Gandhi was a pacifist and that Charles Darwin wrote a famous book about evolution. A smaller proportion will be able to take you through the main arguments of On the Origin of Species. Fewer still will be able to reel off the names of Darwin’s other bestsellers.
