Evolution and Wonder: Understanding Charles Darwin

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This elevation map of a coral reef island is a hand-drawn water-color sketch by Charles Darwin, date unknown.

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A greyscale image of Notebook B. The original notebook has been lost and isn't available for photoduplication.
(Reprinted with permission of Syndics of Cambridge University Library, DAR 121:45)

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Tabulate Mammalia on this principle.
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~~Varieties~~ ~~Races~~ Man in savage state may be called, ~~species~~ species. in domesticated ~~species~~ races.— If all men were dead then monkeys make men.— Men makes angels—