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The Darwin job: the vanishing, reappearing notebooks

The Darwin job: the vanishing, reappearing notebooks

The Slow Newscast • S1, Episode 151

The Darwin job: the vanishing, reappearing notebooks

If Dan Brown, the author of The Da Vinci Code, delivered a tale in which two tiny notebooks were left along with an anonymous note in the very library from which they had gone missing 22 years earlier, it might seem a bit far-fetched even for him. That those notebooks should contain the actual handwritten workings of Charles Darwin as he developed his theory of evolution just adds to the intrigue.

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