Robert Clarkのインスタグラム(robertclarkphoto) - 10月4日 04時01分

Angraecum sesquipedale (now commonly known as Darwin's orchid) is a species from #Madagascar. Studying it, #Darwin understood that the species could be pollinated only by a moth with a proboscis far longer than any yet seen on Earth. A variety of "experts" ridiculed Darwin's prediction, published in 1862, that such a moth must exist on Madagascar. (Ridicule was an experience he must have been used to then.) It wasn't until 1903, more than two decades after Darwin's death, that collectors found the exact moth that he'd said was out there: Xanthopan morganii, originally given the subspecies name praedicta in recognition of the great man who predicted its existence. The photo on the cover of the book is the moth that pollinates this flower which is the back cover of my book, Evolution A Visual Record. The release of the book is today, it is available on Phaidon.com as well as Amazon, please take a look if you are interested.

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