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Tree of Life

Tree of Life
Segment of an illustration by Henry Holiday (cut by Joseph Swain) in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, 1876

The segment on the lower right side is Charles Darwin's Tree of Evolution or Tree of Life sketch in his 1st notebook, page 36, 1837-1838. I learned, that Darwin did not keep his notebook secret after the publication of On the Origin of Species, but I do not know of any presentation of his sketch before 1876. Thus, the resemblance between the "weed" and Darwin's evolutionary tree sketch propably is purely incidental.

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Questions:
(1) When did Charles Darwin publish a facsimile of his sketch fo the first time? When (e.g. in lectures etc.) was it presented for the first time?
(2) Or is there a completely different explanation? Holiday's "weed" also could allude to an eagle riding a wild boar.

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 Götz Kluge
Götz Kluge club
An Expedition Team
11 years ago.
 Götz Kluge
 Götz Kluge
Götz Kluge club
As for the completely different explanation mentioned above: "eagle riding a wild boar":
William III, Religion and Liberty, Care and Hope
10 years ago. Edited 10 years ago.

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