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Published: 2024-03-11 17:18:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 153; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 0
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Description On the left, you can see Charles Darwin holding an Angraecum sesquipedale flower and his most famous book - "On the origin of species by means of natural selection". On the right, you can see Kliment Timiryazev, another great biologist and a major proponent of Darwin's evolution theory in Russia (unfortunately, he is much less known). The book that Timiryazev is holding is called "The historical method in biology". On his shoulder a little skylark is sitting. Next to the Timiryazev's right hand, there is a Xanthopan morganii moth, the existence of which was predicted by Darwin himself. By the way, Darwin and Timiryazev actually met once, it was quite a touching story.
The Northern Shoveler looking at the picture of a whale refers to one paragraph in Darwin's book, where he compared the structure of this duck's beak to the whalebone. 
And a tiger... makes no sense, actually. It is there simply for decorative purposes ))
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