The survey, which was conducted to mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, found that nearly half of the British adult population could not name the country's greatest naturalist as the author of On the Origin of Species, the 1859 book that introduced evolution through natural selection to a sceptical Victorian society.
The poll also revealed some extraordinary views on more recent writings, with 5% of adults thinking Darwin wrote A Brief History of Time, a bestseller on the science of spacetime, which was written by the Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking and is widely regarded as the most popular science book never to be completed by its readers.
さらに、Cambridgeの物理学者Stephen Hawkingによって書かれた不朽の科学書とみなされている、時空の科学についてのベストセラー"A Brief History of Time"をダーウィンが執筆したと思っている成人が5%といたという、驚くべきことが明らかになった。
A further 3% of those surveyed thought Darwin wrote The God Delusion, by the arch-atheist and Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins, while 1% thought Darwin was the author of The Naked Chef by Jamie Oliver.
さらに、3%の人々が、Oxfordの生物学者にして第1級無神論者Richard Dawkinsの本"The God Delustion"をダーウィンが書いたと回答した。さらに、1%の人々がJamie Oliverの本"The Naked Chef"をダーウィンが書いたと回答した。
