Charles Darwin and Evolution
This year sees the 200th anniversary of the birth of the geologist and naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-1892) and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his revolutionary book On the Origin of Species, which explained his theory of natural selection and evolution.
Image: Detail of a design by Tom Eckersley (1914-1995) for the World Wildlife Fund (now WWF-UK), showing species in danger of extinction - due to some very un-natural selection.
Image provided by University of the Arts London with all rights reserved by the owners: the Tom Eckersley Estate and London College of Communication. Image taken by Graham Goldwater, with rights reserved by University of the Arts London, contact: archive-enquiries@arts.ac.uk, 02075 149 335.Labels: collections of the month
posted by Paddy at 9:10 am
3 Comments:
Thanks for making this information available.
Urgh, that's more endangered species than I could of imagined. Very sad.
I really like the picture it's just a shame what it represents.
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