title: The captivating coral--the origins of early evolutionary imagery.
abstract: In the 'Origin of Species', Darwin sums up his ideas about the evolutionary process in a single diagram. Tracing the 'evolution' of this diagram reveals a host of sources that may have inspired Darwin's imagination.
authors.forename: Florian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Maderspacher
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D037421:Anthozoa / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D005075:Biological Evolution; D001695:Biology / Q000266:history; D001878:Books, Illustrated / Q000266:history*; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D007092:Imagination