The Black Lives Matter movement sweeping the globe has led to statues of controversial historical figures like slave traders and Confederate war heroes being desecrated or even pulled down, leading some people in Australia to call for the statue of Captain Cook to be pulled down.
One, therefore, wonders, if this momentum is to continue, whether we will have to rename the capital of the Northern Territory.
The full title of Charles Darwin’s seminal work is On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
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