"I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.... I think I have found out (here's presumption!) the simple way by which species become exquisitely adapted to various ends."
Darwin, quoted in Roberts, p. 305
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Introduce a couple of line breaks and this could stand on its own as a #FoundPoem!
The full letter is here.
https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-729.xml



