Using Darwin in helping to define the biological essentiality of silicon and aluminium
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - 11:09
in Earth & Climate
In this year, 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of ‘On the Origin of Species’ a UK scientist has used Darwin’s seminal work on Natural Selection in helping to define the biological essentiality of the second (silicon) and third (aluminium) most abundant elements of the Earth’s crust.