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By Gege Li

23 September 2020

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Paradise Lost brings artist Jan Hendrix to London’s Kew Gardens from 3 October with an exhibition mourning Kamay Botany Bay in Australia. Kew founder Joseph Banks collected plants from it in 1770, when it was pristine.

 

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The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries is palaeontologist and geologist Donald Prothero’s entertaining guide to the past, present and future of living things – with nature’s more bizarre aspects to the fore.

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