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The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms

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    In Charles Darwin: The private man and the public debate

    …his final, long-term interest, publishing The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms (1881), the future looked bleak. Such an earthy subject was typical Darwin: just as he had shown that today’s ecosystems were built by infinitesimal degrees and the mighty Andes by tiny uplifts, so he ended…

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