Naturalist
On JudgeMarket, Charles Darwin prices firmly in the top tier of scientific legacies, holding a ceiling few naturalists ever approach. The bid is straightforward: natural selection is the organizing principle of modern biology, and On the Origin of Species restructured how the entire species debate is conducted. What modestly caps the valuation is the persistent culture-war discount — evolution remains politically contested in some markets — plus the slow rehabilitation of Alfred Russel Wallace as co-discoverer, which trims the sole-attribution premium. Against Isaac Newton, Darwin trades in a comparable paradigm-shift band, though Newton carries more mathematical-foundation beta. Compared to Albert Einstein, Darwin is the lower-volatility name: Einstein has the iconography premium, but Darwin's theory has proved more universally operational across adjacent disciplines. The market reads him as consensus reference asset, low volatility, with no realistic path to re-rating downward absent a scientific revolution that hasn't arrived.
