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Rediscovering Charles Darwin

Inscribed, C. Darwin

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Photo: British Geological Survey

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Inscribed, C. Darwin

This slide, with Darwin's name inscribed, contains a 40-million-year-old piece of fossilized wood from Chiloe Island in southern South America.