New light shed on Charles Darwin’s ‘abominable mystery’
Historical documents are uncovered that provide clues to a puzzle that haunted Charles Darwin. …
In August 1881, only months before his death, he wrote to Hooker: “Nothing is more extraordinary in the history of the Vegetable Kingdom, as it seems to me, than the apparently very sudden or abrupt development of the higher plants. I have sometimes speculated whether there did not exist somewhere during long ages an extremely isolated continent perhaps near the South Pole.”
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