You no longer have to trek over to Cambridge University in order to sift through Charles Darwin's notes and papers. Now, it's all online, for anyone to access. The papers are all scanned in, so you can see his actual handwriting, sketches, etc. The image above, for instance, is the first written instance of Darwin's questioning the orthodoxy that species are stable (unchanging) entities over time. If species aren't stable over time, that means they can change over time, and those three words can be condensed into one word: evolution.

Also, NPR did a piece on the material being made web-accessible.

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