“”Darwin was an unusual gourmet. He had a distinctly scientific approach to eating and was never more satisfied than when digesting the rarest species known to the palate. As a student at Cambridge, Darwin presided over the Glutton Club, which met weekly in order to seek out and eat ‘strange flesh’.”

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