Charles Darwin's Observations on the Behaviour of Earthworms and the Evolutionary History of a Giant Endemic Species from Germany, <i>Lumbricus badensis</i> (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae)

<table>Cartoon by E. L. Sambourne, published in the <i>Punch</i> in 1882 with the sentence “Man is but a worm”. This parody of Charles Darwin's concepts on the origin of humanity has been corroborated by recent molecular data on the phylogenetic relationships of annelids and vertebrates (adapted from [<a href="/journals/aess/2010/823047/#B43">38</a>]).</table>

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Figure 9: Charles Darwin's Observations on the Behaviour of Earthworms and the Evolutionary History of a Giant Endemic Species from Germany, <i>Lumbricus badensis</i> (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae) 

Figure 9 | Charles Darwin's Observations on the Behaviour of Earthworms and the Evolutionary History of a Giant Endemic Species from Germany, Lumbricus badensis (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae) 