This corrective to our habitual emphasis on competition had me writing ‘wow’ in the margins again and again This corrective to our habitual emphasis on competition had me writing ‘wow’ in the margins again and again W hen Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, the Industrial Revolution and British colonialism were in the ascendant. Charles Dickens had published Hard Times five years earlier; Queen Victoria nominally ruled a fifth of the world’s population. Darwin, writes