It's easier to devein shrimp before they are cooked. 1  Use a sharp paring knife to cut a slit along the outer curve of the shrimp's body. 2  The cut will reveal a dark brown or black vein, the shrimp's digestive tract. 3  Use your fingers, a fork or the paring knife to lift it out of the shrimp and discard it.
Last year marked the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Darwin. But this essay is not about Charles Darwin. It is about a contemporary of his, Herbert Spencer, who was developing a theory of evolution before Darwin and is credited with coining the phrase the survival of the fittest.. His books sold in huge numbers during his lifetime and he was almost certainly the most famous philosopher of the Victorian age.
Charles Robert Darwin, FRS FRGS FLS FZS was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors and, in a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace, introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artific