They stole the “tree of life” from Charles Darwin and denounce it now, 19 years later

The library of Cambridge University celebrated 161 years since the publication of Charles Darwin’s masterpiece, The Origin of Species, in an unusual way: they “whitewashed” only the notebook containing the famous drawing of the tree of life, sketched by the naturalist himself, had been stolen. But not now but …19 years ago!

On November 24, Evolution Day, the British university decided to inform Interpol of the incident and requested international assistance.

The notebook that just disappeared was one of the oldest, from 1837. The Conservatives noticed it in January 2001 and have searched intensely for it from there until now they gave up and reported it as a theft.
This disappearance is already in the register of lost cultural objects from the UK Great Britain and in the Interpol Stolen Art Database.
University librarian Jessica Gardner said almost in tears: “It pains my heart that the location of these Darwin notebooks, including Darwin’s iconic ‘Tree of Life’ design, is currently unknown. determined to do everything possible to find out what happened and leave no stone unturned during this process. He even asked anyone with any information to let him know.

“Someone, somewhere, may have knowledge to help us put these notebooks back in their rightful place at the heart of Britain’s scientific and cultural heritage,” added the librarian.

Although Darwin published 17 books, the one that won him the most fame was The origin of species, who began to write in notebooks, from 1837. Although in the scientific world everyone knows he didn’t invent evolution, they all took it for granted and stopped arguing about it. The first to raise the question had been another naturalist, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829), including his own grandfather, Erasmus Darwin and especially, Alfred Russel Wallace who raised the theory of natural selection work alone.
The Lethe River ran through all of this. It has often been argued that the theory should be called Wallace-Darwin. Over the years the nomenclature changed for Darwin-Wallace until finally in the fifth edition of the book, in 1869, everyone forgot of the question.

His contemporaries say that Darwin said: “my theoryEven in front of Wallace, who was silent like a true English lord.

While darwin beard reached unimaginable excesses, Thomas Henry Huxley, paleontologist and specialist in comparative anatomy, grandfather of the famous author of A happy world, he was a vocal advocate and commentator of the work of “his teacher”. In his day he was even called “Darwin’s Bulldog”.