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About the Image
This elevation map of a coral reef island is a hand-drawn water-color sketch by Charles Darwin, date unknown.
Evolution and Wonder: Understanding Charles Darwin
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a). The following analogy I am aware is a false one; but when I consider the enormous extension of life of an individual plant, seen in the grafting of an Apple tree, & that all these thousand trees are subject to the duration of life which one bud contained. I cannot see such difficulty in believing a similar duration might be propagated
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