The Mystery of Darwin's Stolen Notebooks
Darwin’s tiny, priceless Tree of Life sketch is arguably the most iconic drawing in the history of science. “The Tree of Life notebooks are Darwin at his most radical,” says Professor Jim Secord, a world expert on the subject. “The theory of natural selection and evolution is the foundation stone of modern biology and much of the rest of the sciences.” However, the notebooks were stolen in the early 2000s and were missing for two decades before their anonymous return in a pink gift bag on March ...
Nov 29, 2022•31 min