Vogue - Natural selection
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Explore Darwin's world and unearth evolution-inspired pieces, as Charlotte Sinclair celebrates the naturalist's bicentenary
When on board HMS Beagle, as a naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past. inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers." So wrote Charles Darwin in the introduction to On the Origin of Species, a work that changed the world. This month sees celebrations marking Darwin's bicentenary, and a trend for all things evolution-themed, from objets to fashion and films.
Being Darwin's great-great-granddaughter, poet. Ruth Padel has more claim than most to celebrate the great man, as she does in a new book, Darwin: A Life in Poems.
Adventure wall hanging, £ 1,995, Vivienne Westwood, at The Rug Company
