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On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects

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    In Charles Darwin: The patriarch in his home laboratory

    …Origin was, to everyone’s surprise, The Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects (1862). He showed that the orchid’s beauty was not a piece of floral whimsy “designed” by God to please humans but honed by selection to attract insect cross-pollinators. The petals guided the…

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