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At 27, Darwin sketched the tree of life in a small notebook with the words "I think". Science writer David Quammen reflects on this in "The Tree of Life: Genes, Viruses, and Evolution", a discussion with Antonino Cattaneo and Francesco Raimondi (Nov 10, 2020, online). #DarwinDay
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