February 12 marks the birth of two American presidents: Abraham Lincoln (1809) and Charles Darwin (1809), one who would preserve a nation, and one who would reshape how we understand life itself. Lincoln was born in Kentucky in 1809. On the same day, across the Atlantic, Charles Darwin was born in England.

Lincoln would guide the United States through the Civil War, redefining freedom and the meaning of the Union. Darwin would publish On the Origin of Species, altering scientific thought and challenging long-held assumptions about humanity’s place in nature.

History rarely offers symmetry, but February 12 gives us two figures whose ideas still echo: one in politics and equality, the other in science and evolution.

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