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====Darwin's contemporaries==== While completing a doctoral thesis on ''Disputes of Plagiarism in Darwin's Theory of Evolution'' at the University of Zielona Gora, where the journal ''Filozoficzne Aspekty Genezy (F.A.G.)'' (Philosophical Aspects of Genesis) is based, Grzegorz Malec published a critical review of Sutton (2015), in which the main difficulty of valid identification of communication pathways was discussed, along with observations on Sutton's alternative approach, {{blockquote|If Sutton is right and Darwin was a plagiarist, it will be the most shocking discovery in the history of science. But he must present hard evidence to convince anyone that Darwin read Matthew's book before 1859 and had known those fragments concerning natural selection. Eventually, he should prove that Darwin learned about Matthew's idea from one of his friends or correspondences [...] Sutton's line of reasoning can be reduced to one simple pattern: since Wilkin could read Matthew, then he must have done so, and because he could have discussed his evolutionary views with Joseph Hooker (1817-1911), then he did, and since Hooker could have informed Darwin about Matthew's book, then he did. But all of this is inferred by Sutton without offering any hard evidence that this really happened. Similar situation concerns Mudie, Main, Conrad, Roget, Johnson, Selby, Emmons, Laycock, Powell and Leidy [...] It seems that Darwin's acknowledgement to Matthew in his letter to The Gardeners' Chronicle, and putting the latter's name in the list of predecessors in the historical sketch in On the Origin of Species, was fair enough.<ref name="Malec (2015)">Malec, Grzegorz (2015) There Is No Darwin's Greatest Secret. ''Filozoficzne Aspekty Genezy (F.A.G.)'' (Philosophical Aspects of Genesis), Vol. 12, pp. 325-331 http://www.nauka-a-religia.uz.zgora.pl/index.php/pl/nowosci/46-fag-2015/933-fag-2015-art-10</ref>}}
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