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How Did Evolution Evolve? | The Evolution of Evolution

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How did a word for unrolling a book come to describe a future nobody could read in advance? Settle into The Evolution of Evolution, a thoughtful sleep story about how an idea of life changed, branched and grew. We begin with a roll of papyrus in ancient Rome. Charles Bonnet watches a solitary aphid, Darwin sketches a branching tree, and a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace crosses the world with…