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The Story of Evolution

A page of handwriting headed 'I think', with a sketch of a branching tree and lines of notes beneath it.
Darwin's notebook page of 1837: 'I think', and his first sketch of a tree of species.

Image: Charles Darwin, Notebook B, p. 36 (1837), Cambridge University Library · Public domain

A Knaph story

The Story of Evolution

How people found out where the kinds of living things come from

c. 350 BCE – 2008

From a ladder of fixed kinds to a branching tree: the geologists, the voyager, the friar and the biologists who showed how living things came to be as they are, and the fossils and flasks that let us watch it happen.

A Knaph story

The Story of Evolution

How people found out where the kinds of living things come from

c. 350 BCE – 2008

From a ladder of fixed kinds to a branching tree: the geologists, the voyager, the friar and the biologists who showed how living things came to be as they are, and the fossils and flasks that let us watch it happen.

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