Northwest Indian College Herbarium

botanical research and collections at NWIC

Evolutionary Considerations

The Roots of a Theory: How Plants Specimens Led a Young Darwin to Discovery

(Professor John Parker discusses how Cambridge botanist John Stevens Henslow proved a crucial mentor for Charles Darwin. The video shows how Darwin shipped his collections from the Beagle voyage back to Cambridge, and how these almost 200 year-old specimens can today give us a snapshot of long-extinct botanical life.)

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