This extract from @rossbrooks.co.uk's Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life reveals some of the tensions between the rich complexity of biological reality and the social norms that sought to contain it.
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This extract from Ross Brooks’ Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life challenges one of the most enduring assumptions in the history of science: