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Nature 436, 643-645 (4 August 2005) | doi:10.1038/436643a; Published online 3 August 2005

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What Henslow taught Darwin

David Kohn1, Gina Murrell2, John Parker3 & Mark Whitehorn4

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How a herbarium helped to lay the foundations of evolutionary thinking.

The kindly Professor John S. Henslow of Cambridge, well known for arranging Charles Darwin's berth on HMSBeagle, was also a rigorous researcher who recorded patterns of variation within and between plant populations and was motivated to understand the nature of species: the big question of natural history as he saw it.

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