![]() On this day 136 years ago Sir Thomas Stevenson This month 9 years ago the world lost George Gray This month 98 years ago the world lost William Lever This month 12 years ago the world lost John Shepherd Barron On the Galapagos Islands he noticed many variations of plants and animals that were similar to those he found in South America, suggesting that species adapted over time and to their environment.Ĭharles Darwin was not the first to propose a theory of evolution but his work was so compelling it could not be ignored. The wide range of far off destinations opened Darwins mind to how this all fitted together. In 1831, the Beagle sailed for South America where she completed extensive surveys, returning via New Zealand in 1836. His theory of evolution by natural selection, now the unifying theory of the life sciences, explained where all of the astonishingly diverse kinds of living things came from and how they became exquisitely adapted to their particular environments.ĭarwin served as an unpaid naturalist on a science expedition on board HMS Beagle. Charles Darwin, born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors.ĭarwin ( 12 February 1809 –19 April 1882) published his theory of evolution with compelling evidence in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species ![]()
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![]() ![]() He hires her on the spot as an office manager, and off we go. There she meets Nate in all his distracted-genius, geeky, man-child glory. (The mother, oddly, never gets mentioned again, that I can recall.)Īnyway, Rebecca, desperate for a job, any job, goes for an interview at a tiny startup in Brooklyn. Her sister, who is staying with Rebecca along with her newborn son and baby daddy in the present, is flaky. Her mother and younger sister need her as a breadwinner Rebecca is the responsible one. Seven years before the present-day story, Rebecca has to drop out of college following her father’s unexpected death. After finishing the last book, Pipe Dreams, I started to get excited about the Nate/Rebecca book, in part because I don’t think I’ve ever read a book with a nerdy tech billionaire as the hero (let’s face it, truly nerdy romance heroes are a rarity). The timelines of the books overlap, which I kind of like – you get to see little bits of the other relationships play out in each book, almost like Easter eggs. ![]() Reading the first three books in the Brooklyn Bruisers series I’ve become increasingly aware of something going on in the background of each story between the owner of the Bruisers, Nate Kattenberger, and the team’s cute and spunky office manager, Rebecca Rowley. Jennie B Reviews / B Reviews Category hockey / Series 18 Comments ![]() |