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Feb 2024
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On the Origin of Species, by Charles Dar...

SHARON HANDY
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In our annual celebration of Darwin Day, let’s enjoy a relaxing read from this foundational text of science. This time, we finally get to natural selection, what it is, what it isn’t, and why birds are so very, very pretty.

 

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