21 October: Beauty, Sex and Death — Darwin's botanical obsessions
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Sheila Poole explores Charles Darwin’s fascination with botanical deception and carnivory. In 1903, 21 years after Darwin's death, a moth was found in Madagascar with a tongue five times the length of its body. Incredibly, Darwin had predicted the existence of this unlikely moth 41 years earlier in what he called his Orchid Book . After finally publishing On the Origin of Species in 1859 Darwin intended to work on…
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