The captivating coral — the origins of early evolutionary imagery

• DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.06.019
• Publication Date: 2006-07-11T10:02:05Z
• Authors: Florian Maderspacher
• Keywords: Schematic

In the 'Origin of Species', Darwin sums up his ideas about the evolutionary process in a single diagram. Tracing the 'evolution' of this diagram reveals a host of sources that may have inspired Darwin's imagination.