EVOLUTIONARY BOOKS Reproduced with permission from John van Wyhe, ed., The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (darwin-online.org.uk)
A STUDY OF HANDS | “What can be more curious that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the leg of a horse, the paddle of the porpoise, and the wing of the bat, should all be
constructed on the same pattern, and should include the same bones, in the
same relative positions?”
— Darwin, On the Origin of Species Clockwise, bottom left: Andreas Feininger/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images; Philip Dowell (c) Dorling Kindersley; Robert Clark
GOING BATTY Darwin sought intermediates that would shed light on the evolution of novelties such as bat wings (top).
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