Julia Voss ; Lori Lantz . Darwin ' s Pictures : Views of Evolutionary Theory , 1837 – 1874 . Darwin ' s Pictures : Views of Evolutionary Theory , 1837 – 1874 by Julia Voss ; Lori Lantz
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www.americanscientist.org © 2011 Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. Reproduction with permission only. Contact [email protected]. Charles Darwin thought the graphic expression of his theory extremely important. In On the Origin of Species, he recognized the difficulty naturalists had “in describing, without the aid of a diagram, the various affinities which they perceive between the many ...
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