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Naturalist Charles Darwin was best known for his theory of evolution. Two of his notebooks, which included his original sketches and remarks, worth millions of pounds went missing in 2001. And now, after 20 years the notebooks have been returned to Cambridge University’s library!

It’s a positive note.

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Was Charles Darwin a one-hit wonder? According to scientists who take a gene’s-eye view of evolution, the 19th-century English naturalist contributed one crucial idea to understanding how species change: natural selection, or “design without a designer”.

In his 1859 book, On the Origin of Species, British naturalist Charles Darwin put forward his theory of natural selection. This, he argued, was the mechanism of biological evolution: like an animal or plant breeder selects for certain characteristics, individuals with better survival ability leave more offspring. In this way…