Celebrating Darwin

celebration of the life and legacy of Charles Darwin 200th anniversary theory of evolution and revolutionized scientific thought
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Revolutionary Thinking
Darwin jotted down many of his ideas and observations in a series of notebooks. He drew this "tree of life" in July 1837 to illustrate his concept of descent with modification — how one species could evolve into many — but did not formalize his theory for another 20 years.

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