[GSlob]

"What grading system ranks Origin as the greatest book in science? What titles were runners-up? What were those signal discoveries that transformed the biological sciences of his day? What was his new concept of humankind?"
Well, there is Charles Murray's book on human accomplishment. He explicitly used the econometric criteria to grade the relative importance of various prominent scientists in several different fields, and came to the same conclusion: in the field of biology Charles Darwin IS the greatest.

[Dark Knight]

Well, there is Charles Murray's book on human accomplishment. He explicitly used the econometric criteria to grade the relative importance of various prominent scientists in several different fields, and came to the same conclusion: in the field of biology Charles Darwin IS the greatest.<<

Why that is amazing! A theory with NO MAJOR PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS has as much economic implication as something like the discovery of DNA and the various scientific theories borne from that fruit. I believe there are ORDERS of magnitude difference in economic activity between the two. Would you invest in biotech or ... they really don't have many companies doing work on practical Darwinism do they?

DK