Facts and Arguments for Darwin

Some parasitic crustaceans look so strangely crippled that naturalists imagined they had fallen from an earlier perfection—like Adam. Fritz Müller sees these creatures as a test: can Darwin’s theory explain them, or will it collapse into contradiction?

In 1864, far from the libraries and museums of scientific life, Müller studies the crustaceans of Brazil’s coast. He sets out to trace their relationships and development, building a genealogical tree from living forms and the clues their bodies provide. The task may take years, and the evidence is often hard to find; yet each observation makes Darwin’s account of how species change seem more persuasive. If these tangled forms can be explained without contradiction, what might their strange family tree reveal about the history of life?

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