Lincoln and Darwin: Two Men Who Shaped the World

Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, although worlds apart, were both born on February 12, 1809. Who can believe that two men who share the same birthdate, yet never met each other, could be so similar in so many ways? They had an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and possessed incredibly high capacities of memory and recall. They both had high degrees of self-confidence and, against many odds, persisted with their insightful ideas to understand and explain their respective worlds. As a resu...