if Charles Darwin was so smart then why do he be dead?

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I once read an interesting detail about the publication of The Origin of Species.  Darwin had sent The Quarterly Review an advance copy of the manuscript in the summer of 1859.  The chief editor, Whitwell Elwin, after reading the text for review, admitted that it was a good book, but had a reservation.  He thought that Origin would not find an interested readership and worried the volume wouldn't sell.  Elwin recommended to Darwin that, in order to garner more interest, he should instead write a book about pigeons, since everyone likes pigeons.  Everyone who ever got a bad review of a writing submission, as I have, might take some comfort in that story.