Science·The Guardian·6h agoUnited Kingdom
Darwin's Earthworms Still Turn the Soil at Down House
A rainy visit to the study where Darwin wrote his last book
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A visit to Down House in Kent explores Charles Darwin's final book on earthworms, whose soil-turning work he measured at about 2mm a year using a 'wormstone' apparatus.
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Charles DarwinEarthwormsDown HouseNatural HistorySoil Science
