Resolution and Adventure in Matavai Bay – William Hodges (a sailor on Cpt. Cook’s adventures through the Pacific)

Darwin’s first sketch of the tree of life from one origin. Note the cross-bars for extinction — and that change is not conceived with some direction-as-progress. And notice Darwin’s simple words introducing the sketch, “I think…”

Darwin’s first sketch of the tree of life from one origin. Note the cross-bars for extinction — and that change is not conceived with some direction-as-progress. And notice Darwin’s simple words introducing the sketch, “I think…”

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