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Bonds forged on the high seas

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Shared experiences on global voyages linked Darwin and his fellow naturalists, explains Alistair Sponsel.

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  1. and a postdoc in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University, Alistair Sponsel is a senior research assistant at the Darwin Correspondence Project, University of Cambridge, UK, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,

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Sponsel, A. Bonds forged on the high seas. Nature 462, 286–287 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/462286a

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