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Evolution as Art

In 1753, French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, noted the similarities between the skeletons of a human and a horse. He wrote that by tilting, elongating, shortening and fusing the various bones of a human, “the skeleton will cease to represent…a man and will be the skeleton of a horse.”

© Éditions Xavier Barral / photographer P. Griès

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Photos from: Evolution, A Book That Turns Science Into Art »