How Evolution Works

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"# How Evolution Works Eighteen thirty-five. Charles Darwin stands on a volcanic beach in the Galápagos... holding two finch specimens. Same island. Different beaks. One thick and blunt... for cracking seeds. One thin and sharp... for probing insects. He sketches them both. Writes a question mark in his notebook. And doesn't yet know he's holding the thread that will unravel everything we thought we knew about where we came from. That question mark... took him twenty-three years to answer. ..."