Despite the unlikelihood of Charles Darwin teaching psychology in this decade, implications of his personal and professional history for an academic career in psychology are fantasized. Relationships between his theoretical position and the content of an introductory psychology course he might teach and how he might fare in a contemporary academic environment are sketched in this fictionalized account.
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