Celebrating Darwin
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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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